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WILLIAM G. MYERS. Prominent among the early settlers of Sheridan township is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, in 1827, and moved to Fountain county, Indiana, when he was one year old. Is the son of Daniel and Catharine Myers. His mother died when he was a little over one year old. His father married Jane Mosier. When the subject of this sketch was old enough he attended school and helped to clear off the farm, as his father settled in the heavy timber. He was the youngest of six boys and three girls and was very fond of hunting. He spent a great deal of his time hunting squirrels and wild turkeys, and in fishing. In 1852 he took a trip to Iowa, and staid there one winter; he then returned, and in 1866 took a trip to Texas to visit his sister, who was then living there; he remained there one summer, then drove a mule team back. Came back through Arkansas and the southern part of Missouri. He was on the road five weeks; and while on the road he fell in with a party of Morgan’s men, but he had no trouble with them as he attended to his own business, and let them do the same. In 1868 he came to Jasper county and bought 240 acres of land in Lincoln township, and returned to Rob Roy, Indiana, and engaged as clerk in a store; also kept the post-office for two years. During that time he sold his farm in Jasper county; he then came back to Missouri and located in Carthage. In 1872 was married to Sarah C. Keifer. He bought his present farm soon after he was married, and moved upon it and improved it. He has two children, named Carrie and Lennie. Mr. Myers has eighty acres, all under cultivation; has one good spring and two wells of water, and a good orchard, and raises all kinds of fruit that grow in this country; he has a good house, granary, and corn-cribs. His farm is situated in section 3, township 29, range 30. Mrs. Myers is a member of the M. E. Church, and Mr. Myers takes a very active part in church affairs and keeping up the Sunday-school. In politics he is a Republican, He is a very sociable and courteous gentleman.