Greene-Clark County IN Archives Biographies.....Shryer, M. H. 1816 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   M. H. SHRYER, a pioneer of Greene County, is a native of Maryland, born in
1816. He is a son of John Shryer, and his grandfather was a native of Germany,
and the progenitor of that name in America. When thirteen years old, M. H. left
home, and for several years resided in West Virginia. In 1832, he came to
Jeffersonville, Ind., from thence going South, and in 1836 returning to Indiana,
locating in Bloomfield and opening a general store. Owing to the financial
failures and hard times of 1837, Mr. Shryer failed in business, but through the
timely aid of Mr. Taylor and Andrew Downing, he was enabled in time to pay all
his debts. He was employed at various occupations for some time, and a
noticeable feature in his life was in 1837, when he hauled dirt on the streets
of Bloomfield for 37 1/2 cents per day. In 1848, in partnership with Mr.
Downing, he built the old Richland furnace, and their product was first conveyed
abroad from New Albany on flat-boats. They afterward built a steamboat, and in
the management of this Mr. Shryer obtained the title of "Captain," by which he
is generally known. In 1853, he severed his connection with his benefactor, Mr.
Downing, and embarked in merchandising at Worthington, continuing five years,
and in 1858 selling out and removing to Bloomfield, where he has since resided.
Mr. Shryer is one of the progressive men of Greene County, and has done as much
to advance the interests of Bloomfield as any other one man. He was one of the
charter members of the bank of which he now has a controlling interest, and
besides this is largely interested in other town and country property. He is a
representative type of what a poor boy becomes through difficulties, and with no
aid to rely upon but his willing hands and an unblemished reputation. He is a
Republican, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and has been four times
married. First, in 1836, to Elizabeth M. Hoffman, who died in 1838. To his
second marriage, with Mary Ann Eveleigh, which was solemnized the winter of
1838, six children were born, four of whom are yet alive. In 1851, he married
Martha M. Cressy, and two of their four children are yet living. This lady died
in 1879, and in 1881 he was married to Mary E. Maxwell, his present wife.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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