Meier daniel biography

A retired Aviation Safety Inspector for the FAA, Daniel V. Meier, Jr. has always had a passion for writing.
Daniel Meier graduated from UNCW (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) with a major in History.
Edward Daniel Meier (May 30, 1841 - December 15, 1914) was an American mechanical engineer, and President and chief engineer of the Heine Safety Boiler Company.

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Interview with Daniel Meier

Author of The Dung Beetles of Liberia

Where are you from originally and where do you reside now?

I was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and grew up there, sailing small boats on the ocean and intercoastal waterway, and flying small planes. I now live in Owings, Maryland, not far from Annapolis where I still sail. Now I sail a Bayfield 36 Cutter rig on the Chesapeake Bay.

If you currently reside somewhere besides where you were born, what’s the story that lead from there to here?

My wife, at the time, was an elementary school teacher and was offered a job in Edgewater, MD, a suburb of Annapolis. I was writing my first novel at the time so I had nothing tying me to Wilmington. I was delighted at the idea of moving near Annapolis.

What made you decide to write and publish your first book?

I have always enjoyed writing and throughout my school years was encouraged to do so. My major at the University of North Carolina Wilmington was History which honed my writing style to be descriptive, but to the point. Some have called it j

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About the Author

Daniel Meier graduated from UNCW (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) with a major in History. He served in the United States Navy and later studied American Literature at The University of Maryland Graduate School and began writing.

Meanwhile, he taught English and History at a private high school for a couple of years, worked as a flight instructor and a pilot examiner for the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration).
In 1980, Leisure Books published a mystery/ thriller that he wrote under the ‘nom de plume’ Vince Daniels. In addition, he published a short story in a college literary magazine and worked, briefly, for the Washington Business Journal as a journalist. He was also a contributing editor to several aviation magazines and worked as a technical writer/editor for a U.S. government contractor.

For the past two decades he has served the FAA as an Aviation Safety Inspector for flight operations working mostly out of the Washington D.C. headquarters. He is now retired and therefore has had an opportunity to return to his writing.

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Edward Daniel Meier

American mechanical engineer

Edward Daniel Meier (May 30, 1841 - December 15, 1914)^[1] was an American mechanical engineer, and President and chief engineer of the Heine Safety Boiler Company, known as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1911–12.^[2]

Biography

Youth, study and civil war

Meier was born in St. Louis in 1841, son of a native German hardware merchant Adolphus Meier. After attending St. Louis Public High School, he studied at Washington University in St. Louis for two years, and at the Royal Polytechnic College in Hanover for another four years.^[2]

Upon his return in the States in 1862 he started as apprentice at Mason's Locomotive Works in Taunton, Massachusetts. The next year he enlisted in the Grey Reserves, the Thirty-Second Pennsylvania, which was attached to the army of the Potomac until after the Battle of Gettysburg. He subsequently served in the Second Massachusetts Battery, also in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and finally became lieuten