Background
Meeker, Jonathan Magie was born on September 20, 1850 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jonathan Magie and Mary Elizabeth (Deleger) Meeker.
Meeker, Jonathan Magie was born on September 20, 1850 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jonathan Magie and Mary Elizabeth (Deleger) Meeker.
Bachelor of Arts, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, 1873. Bachelor of Divinity, Drew Theological Seminary, New Jersey, 1880. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1888.
(Doctor of Divinity, Wesleyan, 1908).
First state secretary Young Men’s Christian Association in New Jersey, 1876-1879. Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1879. Pastor in New Jersey at Raritan, 1879, South Orange, 1880, Bound Brook, 1881-1883, Cross St. Church, Paterson, 1884-1885, Emory Church, Jersey City, 1886-1888, Roseville Church, Newark, 1889-1892, Hackettstown, 1893, St. Paul’s Church, Cincinnati, O., 1894-1896, St. Paul’s Church, Newark, New Jersey, 1897, First Church, Orange, 1898, Market St. Church, Paterson, 1899-1903, Park Avenue Church, East Orange, 1904-1905.
Presiding elder Newark District, 1906-1908. President Centenary Collegiate Institute, Hackettstown, New Jersey, June since 1908. Republican.
Married Fannie Storer Denman, September 3, 1873.