[3][4] Her mother graduated from Hamline University at Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1859[4][5] and received her master's degree in 1863.

[6] The Merediths were settlers of Bannack by the winter of 1862–1863 when they traveled by wagon to Bitterroot Valley in southwestern Montana.

[2][11] She began writing the column A Woman's World for the Rocky Mountain News in 1889, where she (among other things) advocated women's suffrage.

[9] In 1894 she became part of the editorial staff of the Rocky Mountain News, where was the first female journalist in Colorado, and probably the United States, to cover the legislature.

[1] On November 7, 1893, the men of Colorado voted for women's suffrage and Meredith stayed involved in politics.