The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

The newly elected grand chancellor
was born on July 8, IS51, at Raunds
No1thamptonshire, England. He
came to America in 1869, arriving in
Salt Lake city on August II of that
year.
He is a thorough American in the
true sense of the word and may be
styled a self-made man, as by his
own energies and ability he has made
for himself a name and attained an
enviable position in the community as
we'll as in the Pyithian order to which
he has devoted a great deal of both
time and money. He is a student and
a thinker. a man of broad and liberal
views. large heart and warm sympa-
thies.
In November, 1872, he married Miss
Sarah Frances WolcOtt, a Salt Lake
lady of estimable qualities and bright
and lovable disposition, and Mr.. Mea-
kin has no hesitancy in confeSSlng
that a great deal of his success in life
is due to his wife. In the early years
of his married life. his spare time was
spent in study and the midnight oil
was consumed in the Improvement
After passing the thirtieth milestone
in life he attended the Salt Lake
academy for six months, and with the
means saved from small earnings
after supporting a large family, went
to Chicago and there pursued his
studies under the best teachers in the
dramatic art. music and voice culture.
AS a dramatic reader. singer, ready
and entertaining speaker, he is well
known and appreciated all over the
territory. He is a man Of the strictest
probity, conscientious, genial, enter
tanning, and a faithful and steadfast
friend. an excellent business man, too
generous, however, to get rich. He
occupies a responsible post with
the Salt Lake and Ogden Gas and
Electric Light company where his
services are thoroughly appreciated.
His home is a model one, where
unity and love reign supreme. with
five sons to brighten and cheer it, and
the only cloud on the horizon is the
i'll health of Mrs. Meakin, who has
been a sufferer for the past two
years.
His Pythian record is one of which
he is justly proud. He Joined the
order on April 20, $780, and from the
hour OF his initiation to the present
has been an enthusiastic worker for
the cause. His talents as a writer
and speaker have done veteran Sci
vice TO Pythianism.
He passed through the chairs of his
subordinate lodge (Myrtle No. u, with
honor and credit. In 1892 he entered
the Grand lodge as a representative
and was elected grand prelate: at the
next session he was elected grand in
structor; and at the session held in
this city in June. 1894, was honOred
with the offica of grand Vice-chancel-
lor and, as stated above, he now holds
the head chair for Utah. He is also
an active member in salt Lake Divi-
sion, No. /, Uniform Rank. He takes
til Il tl,1
having committed 10 memory the
principal work of the new ritual, he
is thereby enabled to assume any part
of the exercises
MIR. Meakln services are always at
the command of every Knight OF
Pythias, without the hope or expecta.
ton of reward beyond the happiness
he derives from the thought the writer
has often heard him express, 1--WE
rise by raising others"
He is a staunch advocate of frater-
nal societies and, like Abou Ben Ad-
hem, lover of his fellow men and
believes that fraternity is the hope of
the world.
Besides being a Knight of Pythias
he is a member of the orders of Elks,
Woodmen of the World, Ancient Order
Of Foresters of America and an
honorary member of the Salt Lake
Musicians association.
In electing him to the high office of
grand chancellor of this Jurisdiction.
the knights Of Pythias have shown
good judgment, and they need nave no
fear that the trust and confidence
placed in him will be other than
faithfully and ably administered. a
chancellor better qualified for the or
flee or who has the welfare of the
order nearer his heart would be hard
to find.