There were 26 signatures on the original 1883 Meeker Townsite incorporation papers. None of them were women. That didn’t stop Mrs. S.C. Wright from buying some shares. I am going to use her story to introduce two men in her life who were also shareholders. Charles Dunbar and William H. Burke were signers in the incorporation papers. Neither men made the kind of impact on Meeker’s future that Mrs. Wright did.
There has been much…