Bio of MEYERS, Simon (b.1862), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 277-278
SIMON MEYERS
Simon Meyers, who has been an active representative of the Minneapolis bar for
almost four decades, is widely recognized as one of the able and learned lawyers
of the city and has long enjoyed an enviable reputation among his professional
colleagues and contemporaries. His birth occurred in Syracuse, New York, on the
14th of May, 1862, his parents being Henry and Fannie (Hamburger) Meyers, both
of whom were natives of Germany. It was in the early '40s that they crossed the
Atlantic to the United States, first settling in New York city and later in
Syracuse, where the father engaged in the tanning business. In 1870 they removed
to Albany, New York, where Mr. Meyers passed away in 1878, while his wife, who
survived him for two decades,
was called to her final rest in 1898.
Simon Meyers obtained his education in the public schools of Syracuse and of
Albany, New York, and then took up the study of law in the office of Newcomb &
Bailey in the latter city. On attaining his majority he took the state bar
examination and was admitted to practice at Binghamton, New York, in 1883.
Feeling that the west offered greater opportunities to the young lawyer, he came
to Minneapolis in the same year, was admitted to the Minnesota bar on motion and
has engaged in practice here throughout the intervening period of thirty-nine
years, during which he has built up an extensive and important clientage. His
knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence is comprehensive and exact and the
court records bear testimony to the many favorable verdicts he has won. He has
also become identified with the business interests of this city as vice
president of the Cedar Lake Ice Company.
In 1892, in Minneapolis, Mr. Meyers was united in marriage to Miss Minnie
Ditten-hoefer, a daughter of one of the old and honored families of New York
state, her mother and family having taken up their abode in Minneapolis after
the father's death. Mr. and Mrs. Meyers are the parents of a son and a daughter.
Henry L., who enlisted for service in the World war with the Eighty-eighth
Division, attended the Officers Training School at Camp Lee and was commissioned
a second lieutenant. He is still a member of the Reserves. Ruth V., the
daughter, was actively engaged in Red Cross work, in which her mother also took
a helpful part, being a director of the local organization. Mr. Meyers acted as
one of the Four-Minute speakers in connection with the Liberty Loan and Red
Cross campaigns, so that the family may be said to have rendered one hundred per
cent service to the government in the country's critical hour. In politics Mr.
Meyers is a stanch republican and in 1897 was sent to the state legislature,
where he made a most creditable record, giving thoughtful and earnest
consideration to all the vital questions which came up for settlement. In 1913
he served as a member of the charter commission and he has long been numbered
among the public-spirited and enterprising citizens of Minneapolis whose
influence is ever found on the side of progress, improvement and upbuilding.
Golf and fishing afford him pleasurable recreation when opportunity permits, but
the demands of his practice leave him comparatively little leisure.