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HARRY C. MYERS, merchant, Pittsburgh was born in that city July 5, 1854, a son of Henry and Margret Myers, who came from Germany and settled in Pittsburgh, where they died when Harry was four years old. He received his education at the Orphans’ Farm school at Zelienople, Butler county Pa., graduating in 1866. He then came to Pittsburgh and for three years clerked in a grocery-store; was next employed by A. Bricker & Son, commission merchants, for about eight years, and was two years in the same business with Thomas Tate & Co. In 1882, in partnership with Mr. Craig, opened a commission-house, and at the end of three years he withdrew from the firm, and was partner and manager for the Pittsburgh Produce Commission company, limited, principal owners being Charles and John Arbuckle. In 1886 H. C. Myers and Thomas Tate bought out the Pittsburgh Produce Commission company, limited, the style of the firm being Pittsburgh Produce Commission company, Myers & Tate, proprietors. They do a general commission business to the amount of $200,000 per year, handling foreign fruits of all kinds. Mr. Myers married, Feb. 27, 1879, Emma, daughter of Samuel Grove an old resident of Allegheny City, and two children have blessed this union: Harry Grove and Bessie Laural. Mr. and Mrs. Myers are members of the U. P. Church of Bellevue, in which town he built his home in 1888.