"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

WAYNE TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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HIRAM MYERS, farmer and stock grower, youngest son of Lewis
and Catherine (Cooper) Myers, natives of Kentucky and 
Virginia respectively, and of German extraction, was born
in Montgomery County, KY., December 4, 1820. His parents
came into Indiana in 1824 and located in Wayne Township
upon land now partly occupied by the town of Gosport. 
At the end of about four years, they removed into Morgan
County, where subject resided until the spring of 1866.
Coming thence into Wayne township, he settled upon the 
land he has since owned and occupied. 
May 17, 1849, he was married to Kitura Wilson, whose 
father Thomas O. Wilson, died in May 1883 at the age of
eighty five years. By her, subject had born to him six
children; first an infant not named (deceased), William
Henry, Mary Louisa, wife of John M. Whitaker, Thomas
Jefferson, John W., and Laura Jane, widow of Joseph Asher.
Mr. Myers is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, an
active, wide awake Democrat in politics and a consistent
member of the Christian Church. The only office of trust
or profit he ever sought he obtained and was for one 
term Trustee of Ray Township in Morgan County. From the 
"Virgin Woods" of Indiana, he has made two good farms-
one in Morgan and the other in Owen County. He now owns
a fine farm of 455 acres where he lives and another of
about fifty acres near by,both well improved, cultivated
stocked and equipped. When Hiram Myers was about two 
years of age, his father died, leaving the family poor,
so what he has; he has acquired by the industry of himself
and a prudent, faithful Christian wife.

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