From "1909 History of Miami County Ohio, Biography," located online 11/17/1998:
M.D. Myers, who has been identified with the business interests of Bradford, Ohio, for almost forty years, is proprietor of a prosperous boot and shoe house enterprise here, and has been connected with this line of industry ever since boyhood. He is one of the pioneer business men of the place. He was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, July 19, 1838, and is a son of Michael and Feronica (Deppler) Myers.
When Mr. Myers was two years old his parents moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where the father followed his trade of weaving. M.D. Myers did not adopt this trade, but before he was twelve years of age was learning the trade of shoemaking, and before he was eighteen years old ran a shop of his own. He then moved to Pleasant Hill, Miami County, Ohio, in the spring of 1856, where he worked at first for a shoemaker and then opened a shop of his own. One year later his parents joined him, and it was in his home that his father died when aged ninety-four years. In the spring of 1870 Mr. Myers came to Bradford, and immediately started to erect the building in which he has carried on his business ever since. He has always been an active and public-spirited citizen, ever ready to do his full share in advancing the interests of Bradford, serving faithfully through a number of terms in the Town Council, and also on the School Board.
Mr. Myers first firmly established himself in business before returning to Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, to marry Miss Hannah L. Gingrich, a most estimable lady who had a wide circle of warm friends in Bradford. She died in February, 1908. There were seven children born to them, as follows: Ellen Catherine, who married Henry Miller, residing hear Oakland, Darke County; Matilda Alice, who married John R. Shaffer, residing at Olney, Illinois; Ulysses Grant, who resides in Iowa and is a shoemaker; George, a cabinet maker who resides at Bradford; Mary Olive, now deceased, who was the wife of Albert Klinger; Nora May, who is deceased; and Harry, who resides at Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Myers is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and in this religious body he has reared his children and hopes to see his thirty-three grandchildren united in the same faith. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
NOTE: Even though this article states that the father, George Michael Myers, lived with M.D. Myers until his death, George Michael's obituary states that he lived with son Michael Myers, who was married to Susan Groff. (See notes on George Michael Myers). |
