Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Meyers, Stephen 1842 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

STEPHEN MEYERS.

    A native of Germany, Mr. Meyers was born in Prussia, on the 22d of June,
1842, a son of Mathias and Elizabeth Meyers, both of whom were natives of
Germany, where they resided until 1858, when they crossed the Atlantic and
established their home upon a farm in Hanover township, Lake county, Indiana,
the father there carrying on agricultural pursuits for a number of years.

    In the public schools of Germany Stephen Meyers acquired his education and
when sixteen years of age he accompanied his parents to the new world. The
remainder of his minority was spent on the old homestead farm in Hanover
township, and practical business methods became familiar to him through the
assistance which he rendered his father in the cultivation of the fields and the
sale of the crops. In 1886 he engaged in the saloon business at Hanover Center,
and for thirty-two years he actively continued that business in Hanover
township. He also became the owner of a farm. As the years passed he added to
his financial resources and he is now loaning money and buying commercial paper.

    On the 28th of August, 1866, Mr. Meyers was united in marriage to Miss
Catherine Bechtloff, a native of Germany, who came to America in April, 1866.
They have four living children: Mathias, Stephen, Katie and Frank.

    Mr. Meyers has been somewhat prominent in community affairs. He was elected
assessor of Hanover township and filled the position for five years. He was also
chosen by popular suffrage to the office of trustee and served for six years. He
has been a resident of Lake county for forty-six years, his family locating here
in pioneer times. He and his family are members of the Catholic church and are
well known in the county. Leaving Hanover Center, Mr. Meyers established his
home in Crown Point, and is well known in the city and throughout this portion
of the state where he has so long resided.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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