Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Meyers, Lewis S. July 23, 1831 - 
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MEYERS, LEWIS S.,  farmer, section 36, Big Prairie, was born in France about 
30 hours or 90 miles, from 

Strasbourg, on the river Main.  The date of his birth was July 23, 1831.  His 
father Jacob Meyers, was 

born about 1783, in Schelestadt, and died in 1868.  He was an attache of an 
officer on the staff of 

Napoleon Bonaparte.  Jacob Meyers, the paternal grandfather, belonged to the 
farming community of France, 

and by vocation was a dairyman.  Mary ann (Phillips) Meyers, the mother of Mr. 
Meyers of this sketch, was 

born in 1801, in Minster, France, in Lower Alsace.  She died about 1857.

The parents came to the United States in 1832, and located in Stark Co., 
Ohio.  The son was about nine 

months old, and they lived thee until he was 12 years of age, when they 
removed to Allen Co., Ind.  Mr. 

Meyers remained at home until his first marriage in 1856, when he became the 
husband of Elizabeth 

McDowell.  Two children were born of this marriage, namely:  Viola, now Mrs. 
Weaver and residing in 

Indiana; and Leander, who lives in Ft. Wayne, Ind.  The mother died in 1864.  
After the death of his wife 

Mr. Meyers enlisted in Co. A, 21st Mich. Vol. Inf., enrolling Sept. 1, 1864.  
His command was attached to 

the army corps of Gen. Sherman, and he served in all the actions during the 
memorable march to the sea.  

On the close of the war Mr. Meyers came to Croton, where he worked one year in 
a saw-mill, and then turned 

his attention to carpentry, and became foreman in the lumber interets of 
Robert Mitchell.

Mr. Meyers was married in Croton, Newaygo County, May 13, 1869, to Katherine 
Maier.  She was born July 22, 

1838, in Baden, a Prussian Province and is a daughter of Batel and Margaret 
Maria (Kohler) Maier, natives 

of the same place in Prussia where their daughter was born.  Both were Germans 
and born approximately in 

1805 and 1807.

About the date of his second marriage Mr. Meyers bought 80 acres of land in 
Big Prairie, where he 

established his home.  He has 30 acres cleared, with good improvements.  He 
has passed his time farming 

and working as a lumberman.  He is a great sportsman and has an interesting 
record.  His list includes 300 

deer, 194 of which he killed in Indiana.  He has killed but one wolf, and but 
one bear.  The latter 

weighed 327 pounds.

Mr. Meyers is a Democrat in politics, and Roman Catholic in religion.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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