High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alfred Benjamin Meacham (1826–1882) was an American Methodist minister, reformer, author and historian, who served as the US Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon (1869–1872). He became a proponent of American Indian interests in the Northwest, including Northern California. Appointed in 1873 as chairman of the Modoc Peace Commission, he was severely wounded during a surprise attack on April 11 by warriors, but saved from death by Toby Riddle (Winema), a Modoc interpreter,