Calvin Coolidge and Ezra Meeker, two stalwart Americans--the President a New Englander, and Mr. Meeker a native of Ohio, though for nearly all his adult life a resident of the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Meeker was a youth past fourteen when the late John C. Coolidge, father of the President, was born. Photograph taken on the White House grounds, near the Executive Offices, in October 1924, just after Mr. Meeker had flown in an aeroplane from Washington State to the City of Washington: and the old gentleman took advantage of the opportunity to say to the President--as he had to President Theodore Roosevelt near the same spot on November 29, 1907--that the memory of the Pioneers should be preserve…
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