Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Myers, Claude Milburn 1865 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

CLAUDE MILBURN MYERS.

Claude Milburn Myers has been long and actively identified with business
interests of Ottumwa as the proprietor of a wholesale confectionery and ice
cream establishment on Second street and is also a prominent factor in the
public life of his community. His birth occurred in Agency, Wapello county,
Iowa, on the 22d of April, 1865, his parents being Christopher and Martha Ellen
(Brantner) Myers, the former born in Indiana on the 5th of July, 1835, and the
latter in Pennsylvania on the 3d of July, 1839. Christopher Myers, who took up
his abode among the early settlers of this county in 1843, was identified with
mercantile interests during most of his active business career and was also a
harness and shoe maker. He is now living retired in Ottumwa and enjoys an
extensive and favorable acquaintance throughout the county where he has now
resided for over seven decades. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Myers have three
children, namely: Florence E., who is an invalid; Josephine, the wife of Charles
H. Sage of Omaha, Nebraska; and Claude M., of this review.

The last named acquired his early education in the common schools of Wapello
county and pursued a high-school course at Agency. After putting aside his
text-books he worked as a clerk in his father's confectionery store until 1882,
when he came to Ottumwa, here spending seven years in the service of John J.
Bowles, whose establishment he purchased on the expiration of that period. He
continued the business along retail lines and also began the manufacture of ice
cream on a wholesale scale. Since that time he has built up an extensive
business in this connection and also manufactures candy, occupying the premises
at Nos. 108, 110 and 112 East Second street. He likewise deals in tobacco and
cigars and furnishes employment to fifteen people. Mr. Myers is a charter member
and director in the Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers and served as
treasurer for one year after its inception. Subsequently he became an organizer
and director of the Ice Cream Manufacturers of Iowa, of which association he
served as president for two terms and in which he is still a member of the board
of directors.

On the 5th of June, 1912, Mr. Myers was united in marriage to Miss Kitt Jordon,
who is a daughter of W. A. and Maria Jordon, both deceased, and who has spent
most of her life in this county.

Mr. Myers is a democrat in politics and an active worker in the local ranks of
the party. He served as alderman for Ottumwa during a period of five years and
was a member of the library board when the library was erected, continuing as
such for a few years. He likewise acted as chairman of the board of police and
fire commissioners until Ottumwa adopted the commission form of government. Mr.
Myers was a delegate to the national convention at Denver which nominated Bryan
in 1908, acting as secretary of the state delegation.

He has always been active in conducting special trains to both political and
fraternal conventions, and it was through his efforts that a special train went
from Ottumwa to Los Angeles at the time of the Elks' convention, most of the
funds being raised here. In August, 1913, he conducted a train to Denver for the
Knights Templar and secured a band of forty pieces. He is a prominent
representative of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and also belongs to the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks, the Royal Arcanum, the Yeomen, the Maccabees and the
Moose. The Country and Boat Clubs likewise number him among their popular
members. His life has in large measure been an exemplification of his belief in
the brotherhood of mankind. He has never allowed questionable methods to form a
part of his business career, while over the record of his official life there
falls no shadow of wrong nor suspicion of evil. Kindliness and appreciation for
the good traits of others have constituted salient features in his career, and
his life illustrates the fact of the Emersonian philosophy that to have friends
you must be one. He has always resided within the borders of Wapello county and
enjoys a very extensive acquaintance here.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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