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From The biographical record of Jasper County, Missouri (1901)
JOSEPH H. MYERS.
Among the prominent mine superintendents of Jasper county, Misscftiri. is Joseph H. Myers, of the A No. 1 Mining Ccjmpany on the Roaring Springs land, which he has managed for the past three years. Work was started here in 1899 and now four shafts are in use, the deepest one being one hundred and lily feet. The ore mill has' a one-hundred-ton capacity.
The birth of Mr. Myers was in Wernon county, Missouri, and he was a son of William and Lucinda (Harrison) Myers, the former of whom was born in Germany, but came to Missouri from Tennessee and located in Vernon county, where he was one of the pioneers. He was a farmer all his life and continued in the work until his death, in 187J, at the age of forty-five years. The mother of our subject, Lucinda (Harrison) Myers, was born, reared and married in Tennessee.
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As printed in The biographical record of Jasper County, Missouri (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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