1899 Ezra S Meals was in House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [1]
1917 The estate of Ezra S Meals was listed as a $250 expense for outside office rent. [2]
A biosketch reports [3]:
Dr Ezra S Meals, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Rice Meals, received his primary education in the public schools of his native town, later attending the normal school Gettysburg and the Tyson Academy Floradale Pennsylvania. He began the study of medicine with Dr EW Mumma of Bendersville with whom he read for one year subsequently studying for another year with his brother Isaiah J Meals at Mill Creek Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. He next spent one term in the study of medicine and pharmacy in the University of Michigan and another year was passed under the instruction of Dr RB Elderdice of McKnightstown Adams county. In 1874 he received from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Cincinnati, Ohio the degree of Doctor of Medicine and at once entered upon the exercise of his professional duties at McKnightstown purchasing the practice of his preceptor. After practising successfully in this town for a year and a half, he removed to Biglersville, Adams county and there practiced for the same length of time. August 16, 1877, he settled in Harrisburg, where he has since been in the continuous and active performance of the duties of his profession. He is ever attentive to the demands of citizenship and, from 1892 to 1899, served on the Harrisburg board of school directors, his services being rendered with the same assiduity and strict adherence to principle which marked his professional career. He was formerly a member of the Adams County Medical Society and after his removal to Harrisburg became identified with the Dauphin County Medical Institute. He is a member of the order of Elks No 12 and was formerly connected with other fraternal organizations. Politically he is a Republican. He is now, 1907, president of the Harrisburg Republican Club, of which he was one of the founders. In 1898, he was elected a member of the assembly and served two years elected again member of the assembly in fall of 1906 for a term of two years. Dr Meals married, in Biglersville, September 14, 1875, Mary L, daughter of Henry G and Margaret Kosser, and they are the parents of two children, Ira Dale and Harry S.
A biosketch reports [4]:
Meals, Ezra S., M. D., was born at Bendersville, Adams county, Pa., July 28, 1851. He is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Rice) Meals. Samuel Meals was born in Menallen township, Adams county, and was of Scotch and Welsh ancestry. He spent his entire life in his native township, where he worked at his trade of blacksmithing. From the date of his marriage he resided at Bendersville, where he still lives, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. He was for twenty-five years ajustice of the peace and also filled acceptably many other offices in his native county. He raised company G, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Pennsylvania volunteers, but did not go out with the men on account of his age. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he is a staunch Republican.
His wife, the mother of Dr. E. S. Meals, was also born in Menallen township. She was of German descent. They were married in 1839. Mrs. Meals died in 1877,at the age of fifty-five years. They had seven children, one of whom died in infancy; Isaiah died at the age of twenty-eight, and Mary Catherine, wife of Elias Peters, died February, 1895.
The children living at the date of this writing are: Lucy A., wife of Hiram Yates, residing at Bendersville; Dr. Ezra S., William W., a prominent merchant of Menallen, and Ira J., a merchant of Roanoke, Va.
Dr. Ezra S. Meals received his primary education in the public schools of his native town. Later he attended the Normal School at Gettysburg, and the Tyson Academy, Flora Dale, Pa. . He began the study of medicine with Dr. E. W. Mauma, of Bendersville, reading with him for a year; he subsequently studied for a year with his brother, I. J . Meals, at Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, Pa. He next spent one term in the study of medicine and pharmacy in the University of Michigan. Another year was passed under the instruction of Dr. R. B. Elderdice, of McKnightstown, Adams county. He was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Cincinnati, Ohio, with the class of 1874, and immediately afterwards began the practice of his chosen profession at McKnightstown, purchasing the practice of his preceptor. After practicing successfully in this town for a year and a half he removed to Biglersville, Adams county, where he continued practice for the same length of time. August 16, 1877, he located in Harrisburg, since which date he has been in continuous practice in this city. He ranks among the most skillful and successful of his profession.
He was married in Biglersville, September 14, 1875, to Mary L., daughter of Henry G.and Margaret Kosser. They have two children, Ira Dale and Harry S.
Dr. Meals is now serving on the board of school directors. He was a member of the Adams County Medical Society,and now belongs to the Dauphin County Medical Institute. He is a warm supporter of the Republican party. He belongs to the Knights of Malta, and was formerly connected with other societies.
[1] William Stanley Ray, Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Part I (1899), Search for Ezra Meals, [GoogleBooks].
[2] R. K. Young, Report of the Auditor General on the Finances of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the year ending November 30, 1917 (Harrisburg, PA: J L l Kuhn, 1919), 564, [InternetArchive].
[3] Luther Reily Kelker, History of Dauphin County, Vol. 3 (1907), 110, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[4] William Henry Egle, R. H. Schively, Harry I. Huber, A. S. Dudley, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (1896), 374, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].