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CHARLES T. MYERS, who owns a good farm in township 46, range 26, is one of the enterprising and industrious farmers of Johnson County. To just such men as he are due the development of our newer states and the advancement of our western civilization, and among the men who have so faithfully and successfully endeavored to carry forward the agricultural interests of Missouri he takes first rank.

Our subject is a native of the “sunny Southland,” for his birth occurred in Carroll County, Md., September 15, 1861. His parents were Ephraim and Lydia Ann (Strawsburg) Myers, the former of whom was also a native of Maryland. In the parental family were ten children, and the circle is yet unbroken. The sons and daughters occupy useful positions in life, and look back with gratitude to the early home training which made possible the success of their mature years.

Ephraim Myers was reared to manhood in the old home, where his birth occurred April 8, 1836, and where he remained throughout his entire life, dying in September, 1894. A man of more than ordinary business ability, he was unusually successful in the various enterprises in which he engaged, and early in life became the owner of a comfortable competence, enabling him to spend his declining years in rest and quiet. He was a public-spirited citizen, and ever deeply interested in all projects for the advancement of his community’s interests, and his early demise was deeply regretted in his home locality.

Until attaining his eighteenth year, our subject remained at home, where, as has been said, he received careful training for the battles of life, its discouragements and its possibilities. He received a common-school education, to which he has since added by reading and association with educated men, and in 1879 started out for himself, coming at once to Missouri. Going to work with a will, he was employed for about four years at whatever he could find to do that promised the greatest remuneration. By careful economy, he was enabled at the end of that time to rent land, and commenced farming on his own account. He also bought some stock and farming implements, and for the succeeding six years continued to rent. During this time he met with great success, and in March, 1889, he bought his present valuable farm of seventy acres. Beside managing his own estate, he has, during the greater part of the time, rented and cultivated from two to three hundred acres of the land surrounding him, in the management of which he has ever shown capability and good judgment. He is also a successful stock-raiser and gives special attention to the breeding of hogs, his Poland-China stock being the boast of the neighborhood.

September 12, 1883, occurred the marriage of our subject and Miss Ida Larrimer, daughter of Hugh and Mary (Core) Larrimer. She was one in a family of five children, of whom four survive. Mr. Myers has been greatly blessed in securing for a wife a woman of such noble character and intellectual attainments. She has in the truest sense of the word been a helpmate to him, and to her must be given much of the credit for their success. To Mr. and Mrs. Myers have been born two children, both of whom are still living. Hugh, the elder, is ten years of age, while George has passed his eighth birthday.

Politically Mr. Myers is affiliated with the Republican party, in whose principles he is a firm believer. The Presbyterian Church finds in him an active and influential member, one who is always first in all charitable projects, and one of her most liberal contributors to all benevolences. His home is one of great hospitality, where friend and stranger are alike welcome, and he is properly called one of the prominent men of the county.