John Meyer
Inducted In
1972
When John Meyer arrived in Canada, he worked at the mills of Jacob S. Shoemaker in Bridgeport. After his marriage he resided one mile east of Heidelberg and he is given some credit for naming the village.
He was the second teacher in charge of the 1840 St. Jacobs school and was on the original Woolwich Township Council. Meyer (several spellings are used in the early records – Meyers, Meyer, Myer) as reeve of Woolwich Township attended the first meeting of the provisional County of Waterloo in 1852.
Meyer kept early records of Woolwich Township and later presented them to the council. He served as a justice of the peace and was a strong supporter of early agricultural societies.