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The Historical record of Wyoming Valley; A compilation of matters of local history from the columns of the Wilkes-Barre record Volume 4
The Historical record of Wyoming Valley A compilation of matters of local history from the columns of the Wilkes-Barre record Volume 4 Author:Anonymous This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... Iowa till 1866, when he removed to Chicago and resided there ever since. For two years he filled a ohair in one of the l... more »aw schools of Chicago. Subsequently he engaged largely in Chicago real estate. For several years he has been closely associated with E. H. Talbott, proprietor of the Railway Age, their wives being sisters. After the publication offlce of the Age was moved from Chicago to New York, Mr. Mverd was given charge of the Chicago office and has spent most of his time there in the interest of that journal, the largest of its class in the world. Mr. Talbott has a magnificent palace oar in which he and Mr. Myers, their families and friends, have been wont to travel all over the United States and to Canada and Mexico. On one of these jaunts they all visited Wilkes-Barre, where the oar attracted great attention. Five years ago the writer of this paragraph encountered them again at St. Paul, at which time Mr. Talbott was giving the Mexican editors a trip through the United States. Mr. Myers is survived by his wife and only child, Eliztbeth Vanderblit Myers. Mrs. Myers was Mary Isabella Cowen, of Ottawa, 111. He comes from an old and honored Wyoming family. His grandfather, Philip Myers, was one of the pioneer settlers. His grandmother was Martha Bennet, who was in the fort at the time of the massacre of 1778, but escaped. The following tribute is written for the Becobd by Dr. George Urquhart: The announcement yesterday of the death of Philip Myers at Chicago was a sad revelation to many a resident of Kingston and Wilkes-Barre. The Becobd gave an admirable narrative of his life and personality, and he seemed to have inherited the nature and qualities of a true friend and accomplished gentleman. He was descended from one of Kingston's...« less