JOHN MYERS, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Beetown; born in 1826, in Canada; was a son of Michael and Ann Myers; he became an active young man at the age of 22, and came to Wisconsin and worked in the pinery; then to Taylor Co., Iowa, for two years; came back to Wisconsin and lived one year; he then went to California, where he lived for one year and a half; moved then to Grant Co., Wis., near Beetown; began farming in 1867. He married Miss Mary J. Immel, a daughter of A. Immel; he went in debt for a large farm, but was prosperous and paid for it; he raised five children - William M., Philip H., Bertha R., Mary E., Ettie B.; has 240 acres of land. Politics, Republican.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.