B. F. Myers

MYERS, SAYLOR

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 1/9/2002 at 19:10:15

B. F. Myers, an extensive agriculturist and stock-raiser living on section 32, Union township, Dallas county, Iowa, was born in Polk county, Iowa, April 29, 1849, being a son of J.G. and Eliza J. (Saylor) Myers. The father was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, while the mother's birth occurred in 1833. In the year 1844 J.G. Myers removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained until 1852, when he took up his abode in Washington county, Iowa, where he purchased a farm, which he conducted successfully up to the time of his death in 1901. Mrs. Myers, whose father went to Van Buren county, Iowa, about 1838, later removing to Des Moines, where he built one of the first houses and hotels, is still living, making her home in Kansas. This worthy couple were the parents of sixteen children, of whom the following are still living: B.F., of this review; George, who makes his home in Iola, Kansas; Mary; E.S.; Alexander A.; John G.; Charles, Jessie; Ada; and Martha.

Source: Past and Present of Dallas County, Iowa
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907.
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