Sierra-Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Myers, J. D. 1840 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

J. D. MYERS.—Mr. Myers was born in Randolph county, Missouri, March 22, 1840. In
1851 his father, Henry K. Myers, died, and J. D. being the oldest, the duty of
providing for his widowed mother and three other children devolved on him. This
he did until his mother married again, in 1860. In 1863 he came overland to
California, and crossed Beckwourth summit July 26, 1863. He worked at the
carpenter's trade until the spring of 1867, when he bought a half-interest in a
planing mill at Randolph, the firm being Rawden & Myers. In 1876 he sold his
interest to Rawden, bought a body of pine and fir timber containing 450 acres,
three miles south-west of Randolph, and built a water-power saw-mill, which he
has since owned and managed. March 10, 1870, he was married to Mary Duvall of
Randolph county, Missouri; born July 17, 1850. Their children are Mittie U.,
born January 13, 1871; Henry Wildey, May 24, 1875; infant son, October 7, 1877,
died next day. Mr. Myers is a member of Mountain Yale Lodge No. 140, I. O. O. F.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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