BIO: Rudolph MYERS, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 66-67.
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  RUDOLPH MYERS, M.D., Huntingdon, Pa., was born near Lewistown, Mifflin 
county, Pa., August 2, 1840, son of Michael and Catherine (Holtzapple) 
Myers, natives of Juniata county.  Michael was born January 8, 1803.  When 
but twenty years old, he was united in marriage to Catherine Holtzapple, an 
aunt of Henry Holtzapple, of Birmingham.  He was a farmer, and in 1842 
removed to Hill Valley, Huntingdon county, Pa., where he purchased a farm, 
on which he resided up to the time of his death.  Michael Myers had enjoyed 
few educational advantages; but native refinement of taste and wholesome 
ambition led him to make up for that deficiency by his own exertions, and he 
became well grounded in different branches of study, especially in 
mathematics and in the Scriptures.  Early in life, he became a Bible 
student, and all through life, the Bible was his dearest book.  When still a 
young man, he felt that he should look to God for guidance; in response to 
this feeling, he united with the Brethren church, and was ever after a 
follower of his Lord and Master.  Michael Myers and his wife had thirteen 
children, nine boys and four girls, of whom eleven are still living.  They 
are:  Jeremiah, deceased; Clara Belle (Mrs. Ephraim White), of Dudley, 
Huntingdon county, deceased; Mary (Mrs. Benjamin Rhodes), of McVeytown, Pa.; 
Enoch X., of Huntingdon; Ephraim, resides near Shirleysburg, Huntingdon 
county; Reuben, of Shirleysburg; Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Allen), of Iowa; David 
H., employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Harrisburg, Pa.; Dr. 
Rudolph; Rev. Seth, of Altoona, Pa.; Catherine, widow of William Lukens, 
residing at Atkinson's Mill, Mifflin county, Pa.; Dr. John G.Z., a medical 
practitioner at Osceola Mills, Centre county, Pa.; and Michael H., residing 
near Marklesburg, Huntingdon county.  Michael Myers died January 20, 1886, 
at the age of eighty-three years.  He was laid to rest by the side of his 
wife in the cemetery in German valley.  A remarkable fact in the history of 
this patriarch is the number of his descendants, their being thirteen 
children, eight-one grandchildren, and thirty-five great-grandchildren.
  Rudolph Myers was but two years old when the family removed to Huntingdon 
county.  He spent his boyhood days on the farm, and as a pupil in the 
country schools, those of Cromwell township.  He afterwards studied at 
Shirleysburg Academy, under the tuition of Prof. J.B. Kidder.  His academic 
course ended, he began to read medicine with Robert Baird, M.D., of 
Shirleysburg, matriculated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 
1860, and at the Bellevue Medical College, New York, in 1862; he was 
graduated from the latter institution March 2, 1863.  In the following 
month, Dr. Myers began the practice of medicine at Three Springs, Huntingdon 
county; he removed in December, 1864, to Burlington, Ind.; in 1868, to 
Keedysville, Md.; in 1872, to Grafton, Huntingdon county; continued to 
practice during his residence at each of these places.  For seventeen years, 
since 1879, he has been continuously in practice in Huntingdon.  He is a 
member of the Huntingdon County Medical Society, and for one year officiated 
as its president.  The Doctor's political principles have always been 
Republican.  He served for one term as a school director.
  Dr. Rudolph Myers was married in Shirleysburg, Huntingdon county, 
September 22, 1864, to Mary A., daughter of Amon and Wealthy Lovell, born in 
Trough Creek Valley, April 19, 1843.  Their children are:  Ethelda Alleyne, 
born July 5, 1865, died September 12, 1865; Ida May, born September 20, 
1866, died in infancy; Alice Gertrude (Mrs. E.P. Jones), of Gunnison, Col., 
born January 20, 1869; Lena Lovell, a graduate nurse, of Jefferson College 
Hospital, born May 14, 1872; and Ernest Roland, a student in Bucknell 
University, born September 1, 1875.  The Doctor and his family are 
consistent members of the Baptist church.