[13] In 1928, as a joint venture with David L. Sutton, Meyering constructed what is now known as a Four Nineteen Building as a service station.

[12] While serving on the Chicago City Council, he would, in 1926, be elected the president of the Second Division Association of Illinois, which had membership of more than 3,000 veterans.

Supported progressive measures...Has been active in tending to the interests of his wad and maintaining there the spirit of the zoning ordinance, as well as keeping his section free from vice."

The Municipal Voters League credited him giving strong attention to work on resolving issues related to straightening the Chicago River.

They also credited him, as chairman of a transportation subcommittee, for doing valuable work in addressing the city's "traction question".

[16] Meyering resigned from the City Council in late 1930 in order to assume the office of Cook County sheriff.

[18][19] Meyering was elected Cook County sheriff in 1930, a leading vote-getter in a Democratic sweep of countywide offices.

[1] It received opposition from Frank J. Loesch, president of the Chicago Crime Commission, as well as a number of judges and court attachés.

[24] Meyering died June 25, 1976, at the age of 83 at the Monticello Convalescent Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois.