Myerly, David E.

MYERLY, HALDERMAN

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/6/2013 at 07:53:26

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

MYERLY, DAVID E.—Deep River Twp—pg 737. Section 22, P.O. Deep River. Was born in Carroll county, Maryland, January 19, 1844. In March, 1863, he went to Central City, Colorado, where he engaged in gold mining, with fair success, until September 15, 1863, when he traveled by ox team to Idaho, a distance of 1,250 miles. Here he engaged in mining and freighting for about eighteen months, when he went to Virginia City and conducted a livery stable until September, 1866. He then returned to Central City, where he was laid up by sickness until the following spring. Upon recovering his health he secured a situation as engineer of a stationary engine in a quartz mill, at which employment he continued until the first of January, 1868, when he came to this county, and in March, 1874, bought and moved to his present farm. He married in Sigourney, March 17, 1870, Miss Elizabeth Halderman, of Keokuk county, Iowa, who was born in Columbia county, Ohio, February 14, 1843. Her ancestors were from Germany. To them have been born: Unnamed (born July 11, 1871; deceased), Letha O. (born January 12, 1873), Adelpha L. (born August 28, 1874) and Emma M. (born October 7, 1875). Mr. M. owns forty acres of good land, well improved.