Priddy Meeks (August 29, 1795 – July 30, 1886)[1] was an American frontier doctor who practiced Thomsonian medicine.

He was a polygamist member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and helped settle areas in Utah as a Mormon pioneer.

After the Native American attack on the family, they moved to French Island, Indiana on the Ohio River.

When he could not visit his patients, it was said that he would send a messenger to tell them to "jump all over the city creek, crawl back into your tent and cover up warm".

[2] Having been called to help settle and strengthen the area from Native American attacks,[2] Priddy Meeks traveled with Brigham Young to Parowan, Utah in May 1851.

[7] He was invited by the president of the city, John C. L. Smith, to go on an expedition to explore Long Valley in June 1852.

His own cabin there is preserved by the Parowan Heritage Foundation as the last pioneer farmstead remaining in the area.

[2] He continued to practice medicine in Orderville, and even gave classes to midwives and those aspiring to be doctors.

Mary died in Indiana, and three years later Meeks married Sarah Mahurin Smith on December 14, 1826.

Meeks bought a young girl, three or four years old, from a group of Native Americans in Parowan.

[3] Meeks occasionally appears as a character in Mormon literature, such as the short story "They Did Go Forth" by Maurine Whipple.