Background
Meek, Frederick Mayer was born on May 28, 1902 in Audley, Staffordshire, England. Son of Peter Johnson and Gertrude Jane (Mayer) Meek.
Meek, Frederick Mayer was born on May 28, 1902 in Audley, Staffordshire, England. Son of Peter Johnson and Gertrude Jane (Mayer) Meek.
Bachelor of Arts, Mount Allison University, 1924, Doctor of Laws, 1957. Bachelor of Divinity, Yale, 1929. Doctor of Divinity, Bowdoin College, 1939.
Student Yale Graduate School, 1929-1931.
Doctor of Letters, Norwich University, 1959.
Came to the United States, 1926, naturalized, 1942. Ordained to ministry Congressional Church, 1929. Assistant minister Dwight Place Congressional Church, New Haven, 1928-1930.
Minister Second Congressional Church, Biddeford, Maine, 1932-1936, All Souls Church, Bangor, Maine, 1936-1943, Plymouth Church, Des Moines, 1943-1946, Old South Church, Boston, 1946-1973, emeritus, 1973.
Interim minister Chestnut Saint Church, Worcester, 1973-1974, First Church, Malden, Massachusetts, 1974-1975, Lynnfield (Massachusetts) Center Church, 1975-1976, Quincy Point Church, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1976-1979. Preacher, Congressional General Council, 1950.
President Maine Council of Churches, 1939-1943. Memb. board dirs, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1944-1946, Massachusetts Council of Churches.
Chairman Council for Social Action of Congressional Christian Churches, 1946-1948.
Trustee Bangor Theological Seminary. Past chairman of the board of trustees Andover Theological Seminary. Past chairman administration committee Andover Newton Theological School.
Trustee Piedmont College, 1950-1975.
Board preachers Harvard, 1955-1975. Acting chairman, 1972-1975.
Mason.; Clubs: Odd Volumes. Member editorial board Advance, 1944-1953.
Married Amy May Hunt, June 29, 1932. Children: Sheila, Peter.