My Family Tree

George W. Myers, wealthy farmer of Rock Creek township, began life as a herder of cattle, and has worked his way upward to his present position of substance and well being through industry and good, financial management. Endowed with no possessions at the outset of his career but a strong body and a good mind, he has accomplished a great deal more than the average man. Mr. Myers is a pioneer settler of Nemaha County, and his advent into Kansas dates from the year 1867, when his father homesteaded a tract of land in Capioma township.
Daniel Myers, the father, was born in Canada in 1832, and drove from his Canadian home to Nemaha county with a team in 1867. He settled in Capioma township, but left the county in 1869, and settled in Arkansas City, Cowley Co, KS, where he died of typhoid in 1873. His wife, Elizabeth Colins Myers, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1823, and died March 16, 1899.
George W. Myers was born near Morrisburg, Canada, February 6, 1863, and is a son of Daniel and Eliza (Collins) Myers, who were the parents of a family of eight children. Upon the death of his father, he left home and herded town cattle on the range of Arkansas, with his brother Daniel, for three years. He and his brother then came to Nemaha County, and herded cattle on the plains for two years. For one year, he broke up prairie land for incoming settlers, and then rented land on his own account for two years. In 1883, he bought forty acres in Capioma townsip, but sold the same in 1887, and bought anoether eighty, which he later sold, and invested the proceeds in a quarter section. In 1905, he moved to his present location, and began developing and improving the farm, which was the nucleus of his present large holdings of 560 acres. Mr. Myers has one of the most complete agricultural plants in Kansas, upon which he has spared no pains nor expense to make perfect, and equip so that the farm work can be handled expeditiously and economically. He has a silo, cow shed, milk house, scales for weighting the farm products, and an excellent farm home. Mr Myers specializes in Durham cattle.
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The Republican party has the allegiance of Mr. Myers, and he has served in various minor offices in his township. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, and ranks high in Masonic circles, being a member of the Mystic Shriners, and having taken all Masonic degrees, up to and including the 32nd degree. He and Mrs. Myers are members of the Methodist church, and contibute of their means to support of this denomination.