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HERMAN MEYERS, painter, Verona, was born in Freedom, Beaver county, Pa., in 1837, a son of Christian Frederick and Mary (Smith) Meyers, natives of Germany, who came to America when young, former born in November, 1805, and both died in 1877. Herman Meyers received his education in Lawrenceville and Pittsburgh, and at the age of eighteen learned the trade of glasscutter; after four years at that work he began painting, and has followed that trade ever since. He enlisted, in 1862, in Co. A, 155th P. V. I., assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and was in all its engagements until the close of the war; he was discharged in June, 1865. Mr. Meyers was married Jan. 1, 1866, to Rose Odenwelder, of Lawrenceville, daughter of Charles and Kate (McGurk) Odenwelder, both natives of Pennsylvania. Her father died in 1873; her mother lives in West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Meyers have had three children: Flora, Charles and Emma, latter of whom died when six years of age. Mr. Meyers has resided in Verona since 1878, and is employed as painter in the A. V. R. R. shops. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. and G. A. R.