Myers, E. W.

MYERS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/22/2008 at 14:03:00

E. W. Myers

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.164, Macedonia Twp.)
E. W. Myers, farmer, P. O. Macedonia, was born in Fayette County, Penn., June 25, 1836; his father, Joseph Myers, was born in 1806 in Greene County, Penn., where he resided until 1840; then he emigrated to Highland County, Ohio, where he remained till emigrated to Des Moines County, Iowa, in 1854. There he resided till a short time before his death, when he moved to Henderson County, Ill., and died January 8, 1879, being buried in Oquawka. He followed various occupations; was a shoemaker by trade. Subject's mother, Sarah (West) Myers, was born in Pennsylvania about 1812; was the mother of nine children, of whom five are living. She died in November 1852, in Putnam County, Ill. Mr Myers learned engineering, and, after marriage, learned and worked at the carpenter's trade, which he followed till 1875, at which time he came to Pottawattamie County, having emigrated from Ohio to Marion County, Iowa, in 1865, where he followed the carpenter's trade till coming to this county and buying the farm of 120 acres where he now lives. He has constructed a rotary or endless engine, on which he secured a patent January 3, 1882. Mr. Myers married Miss Rebecca J. Fernow in Ross County, Ohio, March 27, 1857; she was born in the same county May 2, 1835. Her father, David Fernow, born in Morgan County, Va., February 2, 1798, was a farmer and died December 8, 1865, in Ross County, Ohio. Her mother, Rebecca Parrott, was born in Virginia March 4, 1802, died December 2, 1879, and was the mother of thirteen children, of whom seven are living. Mr. and Mrs. Myers have five children; two girls are married - Frances C. McConnaughey, Matilda A. Bates, R. Dudley, Willard D. and Joseph H. Subject is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, No. 421. Mr. Myers has been an active member of the Christian Church for over twenty years. He is a strong Democrat.