BIO: MEYERS, William 1925 SUMMIT COUNTY OHIO 
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 History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, Page 374-375

WILLIAM DANIEL MYERS.  Since early manhood and over a period of thirty 
years William Daniel Myers has been the type of citizen and business man 
exemplifying the highest qualities of trustworthiness and personal 
efficiency. He has been a merchant and is now a leading realtor. His 
activities in the Masonic order have brought him many honors, and he has 
done much to build up the efficiency of that fraternity in Akron.
He was born November 24, 1876, on a farm then just outside the city limits 
of Akron, in Summit County. His grandfather came from Pennsylvania, while 
his father, William Myers, was born in Summit county, and in 1860 became a 
bookkeeper for the mercantile firm of Hall brothers, and was in their 
service many years. He was a democrat and Lutheran. His wife was Harriet 
Jane Pryor, a native of Northampton Township, Summit County.
The home where W.D. Myers spent his boyhood and youth has in later years 
become one of the fine residential suburbs of Akron, the North Hill 
section.He attended the public schools of the city, and subsequently, while 
working to pay his way, attended Buchtel college. Seven of his early years 
were taken up with his duties as a grocery clerk, and for five years he did 
electrical work for a specialty rubber manufacturing concern. For about 
thirteen years he was a member of Myers-Bailey Company, hardware merchants 
at Akron, leaving that to become associated with the real estate department 
of the Herberich-Hall-Harter Company. In 1921 he organized the Standard 
Realty Company, and has since been vice president and secretary of this 
general real estate and insurance organization.
Mr. Myers is a trustee of the Akron Real Estate Board,and has acquittted 
himself well in the performance of his civic duties. During the World war 
he worked with all the committees raising funds. He is a democrat and 
Lutheran, enjoys flowers and gardening, but his chief interest is Masonry. 
His affiliations include Mt. Akra Lodge No. 680, Free and Accepted Masons; 
Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal and Select Masters; Bethany Commandery No. 
72, Knights Templar and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cleveland. 
In 1924 he was elected monarch of Yusef Khan Grotto No. 41, an organization 
for which Master Masons are eligible, and numbering now over 2,500. He also 
belongs to the Shrine Patrol, is chairman of the entertainment committee of 
the Shrine Club, and is president of the Hot Sands Club, a local Masonic 
social organization.
Mr. Myers married at Akron Miss Lillian Johnson, who was born and reared 
in Pennsylvania, from which state her father, W.C. Johnson, came to Ohio 
and was a concrete contractor in Sandusky and Akron. He was a Quaker. Mrs. 
Myers is active in the woman's branches of Masonry, the Eastern Star, White 
Shrine of Jerusalem and Daughters of Mocanna. The two children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Myers are John and Helen.

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