John Myers Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 914

JOHN MYERS, was born July 22, 1807, in Westmorland, England, where he served an 
apprenticeship as a carpenter.  He came to America and located in Buffalo, N. 
Y., in 1832. Here, he married Anne Smith.  Up to 1837 he worked at his trade, on 
both the American and Canadian sides of the Niagara River, building vessels for 
the lake trade.  The year 1837 found him in Platteville, and later in that year 
he helped build the old M. E. Church, the first erected in Grant County.  Part 
of the old edifice is now in use by Maj. J. H. Rountree, as an office.  It was 
built by subscription, and was the second M. E. Church built in Southwestern 
Wisconsin, that erected in 1834, at Mineral Point, only preceding it.  Mr. Myers 
also worked at the old Platteville Academy.  In 1849, he located where he now 
is, and, in company with George R. Laughton, built a carding mill, which he 
operated about ten years.  His wife died Feb. 3, 1859, and in 1864 he married 
Hannah Beckett, who was born in Canton, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.  She came from 
the Western Reserve, Ohio, to Wisconsin in 1853.  Mr. Myers has followed his 
trade faithfully, and still takes pride in his work.