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Young’s History of Lafayette County, Missouri, Volume II
By Hon. William Young, (1910)
B. F. Bowen & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana

Pages 550-551

ABRAM VAN METER
In this sketch is found the record of a man who is yet too young to have
passed through enough experiences to make his history long, but one who has
started in the path which leads to prosperity and happiness and has gotten
well along the way to those desired goals – indeed he has already reached
the latter in the comforts of his family life.  He recognized the
opportunities which the farm offers to a young man of intelligence, and did
not leave it to try his fortune elsewhere, nor has he had any reason to
repent his decision.

Abram Van Meter was born on the Van Meter farm south of Corder March 16,
1873.  (For reference to his father, see sketch of R. T. Van Meter, a
brother of the subject.)  He attended the common schools and the Corder
high school, and then took a business course at the Gem City Business
School at Quincy, Illinois, finishing in 1896, and that year he returned to
the farm.  In 1901 he was married, and in 1902 he bought a farm south of
Corder, of one hundred acres, his father giving him eighty more, on which
he lived Until March, 1909, when he moved south of Alma to the old Prigmore
farm, where he now has two hundred and seventy-five acres and carries on
general farming, stock raising and feeding.

Mr. Van Meter married Sarah E. Prigmore, who was born on the farm on which
he now lives, daughter of Duke Y. Prigmore, a prominent farmer and cattle
feeder.  To their marriage two active and interesting children were born:
Farris Young and Anna Hortense.  Mrs. Van Meter is a member of the
Christian church and her husband of the Methodist.  He is a Democrat.

Mr. Van Meter is a man who possesses the qualities which make for success,
and is one of the coming men in his community.  He has, as well, the
qualities which gain and keep friends for a man.

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