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Author: Will T. Hale

   CHARLES MYERS. The capital city of Tennessee is favored in the personnel of

its municipal corps at the time of this writing, and one of its efficient and

popular executives is Charles Myers, who has served continuously in the office

of city treasurer since 1907 and who has given a most careful and effective

administration of the fiscal affairs of the municipality, the while he has

inviolable place in the confidence and esteem of the community.



   The city treasurer of Nashville claims the fine old Bluegrass State as the

place of his nativity, but he has been a resident of the capital city of

Tennessee since his childhood days. He was born at Bowling Green, Kentucky, on

the 3d of November, 1869, and is a son of George W. and Lucy A. (Hicks) Myers.

Mr. Myers was about five years of age at the time of his parents' removal from

Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was afforded the advantages of the

city schools and also the Tennessee Industrial School. At the age of fifteen

years he obtained a position in the local office of the commercial-freight agent

of the Tennessee & Georgia Air Line Railroad, and he won advancement to a place

of trust and responsibility. At the expiration of six years he secured

employment in the mechanical department of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St.

Louis Railroad, with which he continued to be thus connected for four years. He

then entered the service of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, with

the mechanical department of which he was identified, in an executive capacity,

from 1893 to 1903. In 1903 Mr. Myers assumed the position of assistant city

treasurer, and in 1907 he was appointed city treasurer, to fill a vacancy caused

by the resignation of the regular incumbent. Two years later he was duly elected

to this office, to fill an unexpired term of two years, and in 1911 he was

elected for the full term of four years, his continuous retention of this

preferment affording the best voucher for the efficiency of his administration

and the estimate placed upon the same by the voters of the capital city.



   In politics Mr. Myers is found aligned as an uncompromising advocate of the

principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor and as a

citizen he manifests a lively interest in all that touches the welfare and

progress of the city and state in which he maintains his home. He is identified

with the Nashville Board of Trade and Young Men's Business Association, as well

as the Commercial Club, and is affiliated with the local organizations of the

Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal

Order of Eagles, the Improved Order of Red Men, the National Union and the Royal

Arcanum. Both he and his wife are zealous adherents of the Methodist Episcopal

church, South.



   In the year 1898 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Myers to Miss Nellie

Theresa McCook, daughter of M. J. McCook, a well known citizen of Nashville.

Their children are: Chas. Myers, Jr., Mary Elizabeth and Helen T.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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