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					DAVID W. MYERS.
				MRS. MARY A. (MACOMBER) MYERS (1st wife).
			       MRS. REBECCA J. (MACOMBER) MYERS (2nd wife).

DAVID W. MYERS is the prosperous owner of a fine farm and a beautiful home on section 27, North 
Plains Township, Ionia County.  His birthplace was in Perry Township, Wyoming County, N. Y., and 
he first saw the light August 25, 1832.  His father, James Myers, a native of New York, and a 
farmer by occupation was born in 1789.  He was twice married, this son being the second child of 
the second union.  His first marriage which took place February 24, 1807, was with Mary DeWitt.  
To this mother were born seven children, four daughters and three sons.  She was called from 
earth August 16, 1828.  James Myers was again married September 20, 1829.  This wife, who is the 
mother of our subject, bore the maiden name of Huldah Wallace.  She was born in New York State 
April 28, 1798, and was the mother of four children, two daughters and two sons.
	The first schooling of young David was in his native place.  The district school was 
supplemented by the Perry Academy in Perry Village.  After he had finally crossed the threshold 
of the schoolroom he engaged in farming in his native State until 1859, when he came to Michigan,
and located where he now resides, building a log house and going to housekeeping with his married
sister at the head of his household affairs.  But in 1862 he decided to establish his own real 
home, and on June 22 he was united in marriage to Mary A. Macomber, a lady who was born in 
Livingston County, N. Y. in 1835.  Their only child Rhyan, was taken from them in early infancy, 
and the young mother soon followed her little son to the other world.
	The second marriage of our subject took place June 29, 1867, and he chose his wife from 
the same family as before.  His bride was Rebecca J., a sister of his first wife, who was born 
in New York in 1839, and came to Michigan when a young girl of fourteen years.  Four children 
were sent to this happy home:  Grace (deceased), Dean W., Ralph M. and Blanche E.
	Mr. Myers carries on a general farming business, and has two hundred and twenty acres
of excellent land in a fine condition.  His present residence was erected in 1885, at a cost of 
$3,000.  this handsome two-story house will always be an elegant reminder of the primeval 
forests  of Michigan, as it is all built from wood cut on the farm, the inside work being highly
finished in the natural wood, and an example of the beauties of the lumber of Michigan.  The 
first vote of this intelligent citizen of Ionia county, was cast for John C. Fremont, and he 
has always continued to vote the Republican ticket until within the last six years.  In 1884 his 
interest in the temperance question led him to join the Prohibition party.  He voted for St. 
John and was himself a candidate on the Prohibition ticket for State Representative in 1888.  
He is an earnest and devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a Trustee in the 
North Plains Union Church.  He has been Superintendent of the Sunday-school, and is always a 
great worker in church matters, being a liberal contributor to all worthy objects.


This biography is taken from "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, 
MICHIGAN."  Chapman Brothers.  Chicago, Illinois.  1891.  Pages 370-371.