BIO:  Edmund B. Myers, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Manchester Township, Pg 141

EDMUND B. MYERS was born in this township, October 3, 1829.  His parents, 
Benjamin and Louisa (Smyser) Myers (the latter, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth 
Smyser, of West Manchester Township), were married February 28, 1828, and had a 
family of seven children:  Edmund B., Alexander A. (deceased), Andrew J., Albert 
S. (deceased), Eli S. (deceased), Ellen E. and Louisa S. (deceased).  His 
mother’s ancestors, the Smysers, were among the very first settlers in West 
Manchester Township.  Margaret Smyser (wife of Christian Eyster), was probably 
the first white woman that settled in West Manchester Township.  She and her 
husband located in the vicinity of Wolf’s Church, where they took up 600 acres of 
land, October 30, 1736, as shown by the records in the surveyor-general’s office, 
at Harrisburgh, Penn.  The treaty of session was made October 11, 1736.  Edmund 
B. Myers has traveled extensively; has made an extended trip through Europe, and 
two trips to California.  He has recently become widely known throughout the 
entire country in connection with the wonderful cures effected by him, by what is 
known as electro-vital nervaura, or laying on of hands (without medicine).  Many 
invalids who failed to get relief from the best physicians of New York, 
Philadelphia and other cities, came to him, and in many instances have gone away 
in perfect health.