Ezra Meeker, American farmer and politician (born 1830)

Ezra Meeker

American pioneer (1830–1928)

Ezra Morgan Meeker was an American pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. Later in life he worked to memorialize the Trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth. Once known as the "Hop King of the…