437:. After Napoleon's defeat, he immigrated to the United States and purchased a large tract in Pennsylvania and settled at Montrose. Some years later he married Abigail Nichols of Montrose, daughter of a deacon of the Baptist Church. Their eldest son, Amos N. Meylert, married Anna Dennis. General Meylert and his family moved to Butler, where he became interested in the building of railroads and developing coal, iron and the resources of the country, amassing a considerable fortune. Ada Meylert attended the Greenwood Institute at New Brighton. Later they moved to Scranton, where she met J.A. Scranton, who belonged to the old Scranton family of Connecticut. They had one daughter who married Lieut. D.L. Tate, and one son, Robert Meylert Scranton who married Helen L. Sperry in 1890.
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