My Genealogy Hound

NIMROD MYERS. Among the solid men of Springfield who have reaped success from a course of persevering industry and prudent living, may be properly mentioned Mr. Myers, who is now retired from active business and living amid the comforts of one of the best-regulated homes of the city. He has been a resident of the Buckeye State for a period of forty years, and in watching its growth and development has contributed materially in bringing it to its present condition. Every man who has acquitted himself honestly and as a good citizen has thus been a factor in the prosperity of the place where he makes his home.

A native of Frederick County, Md., the subject of this sketch was born near Frederick, the county seat, September 29, 1813. His father, John H. Myers, was a native of England. The mother died when her son Nimrod was only two years old, and he consequently knows little of her family history. They were the parents of five children — three daughters and two sons — of whom Nimrod was the fourth born. He and his sister Margaret are the only survivors. The latter is a resident of London, this State. After his mother’s death Mr. Myers was taken into the home of his uncle, David Morgan, with whom he lived until a youth of seventeen years. Going then to Boonesboro, Md., he commenced learning the carpenter’s trade, at which he served an apprenticeship of three and one-half years. Afterward he went to Hagarstown, where he worked at his trade for a period of eighteen years.

In 1851 Mr. Myers, leaving his native State, came to Springfield and put up a small cottage, which he occupied with his family four years. In the meantime he followed his trade and operated as a contractor, superintending the erection of many of the most important dwellings and business houses of the city of Springfield. For the long period of thirty-five years he was thus engaged, and accumulated a competence, so that in 1878 he wisely retired from these arduous labors and now employs his time in looking after his property and farming lands. He has in German Township two hundred and seventy-seven acres, in a high state of cultivation and supplied with modern farm buildings. The family residence was built in 1859, and is pleasantly located on West High Street. It is a solid brick structure, and the fact that it has stood the storms of over thirty winters testifies to the skillful and thorough manner in which it was built under the superintendence of its present owner.

Mr. Myers was married in 1837, over fifty-three years ago, to Miss Mary A. Lushbaugh, of Hagarstown, Md. Mrs. Myers was born in that town in 1816, and is a daughter of John Lushbaugh, who was of German descent. This union resulted in the birth of eight children, all of whom are living: Ann; William, who lives in Springfield; Edward, in Omaha; Amelia; Mary; Maria Louisa; Ellen, and Mattie. Mr. and Mrs. Myers are members in good standing of the First Lutheran Church, with which our subject has been connected for the long space of forty-five years. In politics he is a sound Republican and an ardent defender of the principles of his party. In the early days he was a Democrat, casting his first Presidential vote for Martin Van Buren; then became a Whig, and subsequently a Republican. For six years he has been a member of the School Board of his district, and has served on various important committees in connection therewith, and was generally Chairman of the building committee.