Alan Carl HandermannAlan Carl Handermann is a retired chemical engineer who researched his Meeker family tree for two years and discovered his 9th great grandparents (William and Sarah Meeker), two American Revolutionary War patriots (Timothy Meeker Sr. and Timothy Meekr Jr.) along with an American Civil War veteran (Thomas Jefferson Meeker) in his Meeker family lineage. He has three children and fourteen grandchildren for whom he has written this first book in honor of the memory of his mother Mary Catherine nee Meeker Handermann. Read More Read Less