His birth place changes depending on who reports it. On the 1880 for Wells, Elko NV he reports his birthplace as WV and both his parents birthplaces as VT. He married Martha ? who was Feb 1861 in CA. They had 3 children in NV. Laura b Dec 1879, Lucille b. 1883 and Kathrine b 1891. He died sometime before 1900. On the 1900 census for San Francico Martha is living there as a widow with her 3 daughters. Family lore says she took the daughters to find their fortunes in the gold fields of Alaska. Actually I think to find a rich husband. Which is what Laura did. She married Albert Fink, a lawyer from Louisville KY on 18 Dec 1901 in Nome Alaska. I don't know what became of the other 3 Meigs women, but when Albert made his fortune or got tired of the cold winters, he moved to Chicago IL and practiced his law trade there. One of the people who he defended was William Lorimar in a banking scandal which he lost. William Lorimar was thrown out of the US Senate for bribery. His actions caused the passage of the 17th amendment. Another famous crook he represented as a "Special Tax Attorney" was Al Capone in his tax evasion trial. He lost that one too.