"History of Cottonwood and Watonwan Counties of Minnesota, 1916"



Rev. John Meyers, pastor of the Catholic church of St. James, Watonwan county, was born in Germany in 1874. He is a son of George and Anna Mary (Bures) Meyers, both natives of Germany, where they grew up, were educated and married. In 1881 she brought their family to St. Paul, Minnesota, where the father secured employment in the great flour mills, later moving to Dakota county, this state, on a farm, later locating near Hastings, that county, where he purchased a farm on which he spent the rest of his life, dying there in 1905. His widow is now making her home in Hastings. The farm, which the family retains, is rented. To these parents the following children were born; Catherine, is the widow of John Schmitz and lives at Hastings, Minnesota; Nicholas operates the home farm near Hastings; Frank is farming in Dakota county; John, the subject of this review; Lucia makes her home with the subject of this sketch; Leonida is superintendent of the Holy Angels Academy at St. Cloud, this state; Mary is the wife of Jerry Kenny of Bradwell, Canada; George is connected with the postoffice service in Minneapolis.

Rev. John Meyers received his early education in the parochial schools of St. Paul and the public schools of Dakota county, Minnesota; later attended St. Francis Seminary at Milwaukee and was graduated from St John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, in 1903, in which year he was ordained priest He then went to Claremont, Dodge county, Minnesota, and had charge of the churches at Kasson, Mantorville, Deerfield and Dodge Center for six years. He came to St. James in 1909 as pastor of St. James Catholic church and here he has since remained. He organized the church at Mantorville.



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