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Joseph George Megler
Joseph George Megler (March 10, 1838 – September 10, 1915), generally known as J.G. Megler, was a German-American salmon cannery owner and politician in Washington. He was a member of the Washington House of Representatives for the first legislature in 1889 and two terms thereafter. He was also a member of the Washington State Senate for five terms.
During his political career he held the positions of Speaker of the House and President Pro-Tem of the Senate. He has been described as the father of the salmon hatcheries in Washington.
== Early life ==
J.G. Megler was born in Berkach, Thuringen, Germany, in 1838, the first child of a schoolteacher.〔Register of Jewish births, marriages, and deaths for Berkach, Thüringen, Sachsen-Meiningen, Germany, 1831-1875〕 Left an orphan by the age of 9,〔 he emigrated to the U.S. along with his younger brother and two sisters to join an uncle in New York. Some years later they relocated to Syracuse, New York, where he studied the trade of tinsmithing.〔''Morning Oregonian'', October 4, 1898〕
Megler entered military service for the Civil War at Cairo, Illinois, on December 19, 1861 for the Union. He began as a paymasters clerk on the gunboat ''Lexington'', and was soon promoted to Masters Mate and then Ensign.〔 During the war he saw action in the battles of Fort Henry, Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg and Red River.〔''Morning Oregonian'', October 4, 1898〕 He was honorably discharged at New York in October 1865 and joined his brother, Alexander Megler, in Astoria, Oregon late that year.〔J.G. Megler Declaration for Pension, Navy, January 31, 1908〕 There he briefly joined his brother in running the Astoria Hotel;〔''Marine Gazette'', March 26, 1866〕 however within two years he sold his share in the business to Alex Megler and returned to the business of tinsmithing.〔U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, Astoria, Oregon, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870〕
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