SHERMAN F. MYERS
Sherman F. Myers, a native of Iowa, was born at Fairfield, Jefferson county November 4, 1863. He is a son of Jacob and Eliza (Koons) Myers, the former a resident of Fairfield, Iowa, and the latter a resident of Grant township, this county. In 1874, in company with his mother, brother and two sisters, Sherman came to Cass county, settling near the town of Wiota. Here he engaged at whatever employment he could find, and for some time earned many spare dimes on the streets of Wiota as a boot-black, to aid in his support. His opportunities for gaining an education were not of the best, but were always improved. He remained here until November, 1878, when he went to Anita and entered the office of the Anita Times, as a printer's "devil," under the direction of Charles F. Chase. When that paper was removed to Atlantic, Sherman went with it. He afterwards worked in the Audubon Advocate office, in Audubon county, and several other places, after the completion of his trade. Since the completion of the printer's trade, Sherman's advancement and success in life has been rapid. About March, 1, 1883, he became the editor and publisher of the Anita Times, being employed by the proprietors, S. C. Rood and Company, who had very recently purchased the same of E. W. Blakesley. He conducted the paper successfully and creditably until November of that year, when Rood and Company disposed of the office to S. W. Teagarden. He then established the paper of which he is now sole editor and proprietor-the Anita Tribune. Mr. Myers was married in Anita, December 28, 1882, to Mamie La France, of Dubuque, Iowa, a daughter of Capt. Louis and Mary La France. Capt. La France is a native of France, and Mrs. La France, of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Myers have one child--Jessie L., born September 17, 1883.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 459-460.
