"Baltimore directories:  1876 Meister, Edward, successor to F. W. & R. King, manuf of engineers and surveying instruments 226 W. Baltimore; 1877 same; adv on page 462 dw 26 Park Ave.  1877-84 same as 1876.  1890-94 Machinist dw 427 Calvin Street.  He is not listed in 1895.  Previous to his retirement in 1928, he was a Scientific Instrument Maker at Johns Hopkins Medical School of Hygiene.  He was born in Cassel, Germany on January 20, 1853.  He died in Baltimore, Maryland June 20, 1931."

Reference:  Smart, Charles E.   The Makers Of Surveying Instruments In America Since 1700  Troy, New York:  Regal Art Press.  1962