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Born 1836
From History of Stark County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881)
JONATHAN MYERS, contractor and builder; Alliance; was born in Smith Tp., Mahoning Co., Ohio, June 6, 1836. His father's name was Jonathan Myers, who was born in Virginia, Nov. 11, 1806. When quite young, his parents removed from Virginia to Carroll Co., Ohio, and when he arrived at manhood he worked at the carpenter's trade. He finally married, and with his wife removed to Smith Tp., Mahoning Co., where he engaged in farming. They reared eleven children, seven boys and four girls; of these, ten lived to maturity. The subject of these notes is the third child of the family; he received the ordinary tuition afforded in the common schools, and until about 2'i years of age was variously engaged on his father's extensive farm and in working at the carpenters trade; for the latter he had a decided natural turn of mind. He began for himself, with what experience he had then acquired, in contracting and building, throughout the neighborhood, in which operations he was quite successful. Aug. 5, 1862, he enlisted in Co. H, 105th O.
As printed in History of Stark County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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