Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Myers, Christian M.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bedminster Township


CHRISTIAN M. MYERS roller flour manufacturer, P.O. 
Pipersville, is a great-grandson of John Myers, a former 
resident of this township, who, on November 27, 1762, bought 
a tract of land in Plumstead township, where he died.  His 
son, Christian, was the father of Samuel, who was the father 
of Christian M.  Samuel was born on the Plumstead home, 
where the fourth generation is now living, in 1805, and died 
there in 1879.  He was a farmer and a man of quiet, reserved 
disposition, who never pushed himself forward, was temperate 
in everything, and reared his family in habits that insured 
their prosperity, and educated them as well as possible in 
the schools of the day.  He was a member of the Old Deep Run 
Mennonite church, and never held or desired office.  His 
wife, Susanna, daughter of Jacob Nash, of Tinicum, is now 
living on the old home.  They had eight children:  Hannah, 
who died in childhood; Jacob, living in New Britain 
township; Tobias N., in Doylestown township; Amos, on the 
old homestead; Elizabeth, who died in January, 1862, aged 
19; Anna, widow of David B. Kratz, living in Lansdale, 
Montgomery county; Charles in Hatfield, Montgomery county; 
and Christian M., who was next to Tobias, and was born April 
29, 1841.  He was brought up on the farm and after his 
marriage engaged in the milling business at the old "Stover 
Mill" where he now is, and which is owned by his wife's 
father, and has been in the Stover name for over one hundred 
years.  January 7, 1863, he was married to Eliza B., 
daughter of Samuel Stover, who was born on the place where 
they now live February 22, 1844.  They have three children, 
all of whom make their home with their parents.  They are:  
Samuel Horace, now attending Lafayette College, at Easton, 
and who will graduate in 1888; Hugh Ely, preparing for 
college; and Ira Stover, attending school.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Myers recognize the value of education, and intend giving 
their children all the advantages possible.  Mr. Myers is a 
man of positive convictions and believes in saying and doing 
just what he thinks right.  He is universally recognized as 
an upright man and a good citizen, though reserved in 
disposition; an earnest advocate of the temperance cause, 
and gives his time and means to promote Sunday school work 
and other charities.