BIO:  Andrew MYERS, Reading Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 504

ANDREW MYERS, farmer, P. O. Hampton, was born in Reading Township, this county, 
in March, 1826, and is a son of Philip and Mary (Haverstock) Myers, natives of 
Pennsylvania.  He was reared on a farm and remained at home until he was thirty-
five years of age, when he went to work for himself.  He married and moved to 
where he now resides, and owns seventy-seven acres of land.  In 1863 he was 
drafted into Company I, Fifty-sixth Pennsylvania, Eleventh Corps; served about 
four months under Gen. Leacock, and traveled 800 miles in thirteen days on foot.  
He did not participate in any battles, but was always in readiness.  He married, 
in January, 1867, to Susanna Border, who bore him seven children:  Lewis, Mary 
E., Charlie, Alice, Soder, Emma and Anna.  Mr. and Mrs. Myers are members of the 
Lutheran Church.  He is a Republican in politics.