Michael Joseph Meister

*No plaque located*

*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque*

Birth: 9/16/1893 (burial record) or 9/16/1894 (draft registration), Cleveland, Ohio

Address: 3324 W. 50th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 23 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation self-employed Paper Hanger at time of draft registration and Mechanic at a Twist Drill Co. in 1910 at age 17

Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair light

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 10/4/1917; Private

Service Number: 1962193

Deployment: 6/12/1918 from New York aboard RMS Carmania

Action: Co C 322 MG Bn to Aug 5/18; Co A 114 MG Bn to death. Pvt 1cl Feb 1/18; Pvt Somme Offensive; Ypres-Lys; Defensive Sector. AEF June 12/18 to death.

Death: September 26, 1918 at age 24; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: Somme American Cemetery and Memorial, Bony, Picardie (Aisne), France, Plot: Tablets of the Missing. [Somme American Cemetery is a 14.3-acre site that contains 1,844 American graves. The chapel walls bear the names of 333 missing.] 

Next of Kin: Mrs. Lena Meister, mother, 3324 W. 50th St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: Father: Frank Meister (1862-1913), born Hungary, emigrated 1882, various occupations including Cutter, Springmaker, and Sponger at a Tailor Shop (someone who uses a sponge and press to maintain the shape and appearance of clothing); Mother: Magdalena "Lena" Deitrich Meister (1862-1919), born Hungary, emigrated 1880 or 1882, had at least 7 children; died less than one year after her son Private Michael J. Meister, buried at Saint Mary Cemetery, 2677 W. 41st St., Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Frank Paul Meister (1883-1952); Anna Meister Gorton (1885-1945); Rose Meister Bursik (1889-1963); Irma Meister (?); Louis Meister (1895-1932), Police Officer, who named a son Louis Michael Meister (1920-2002), presumably after his brother who died in WWI (Private Meister's nephew and namesake also became a Cleveland City Police Officer); Lillie Meister Parchen (1907-1986)