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Joshua Myers
JOSHUA MYERS, proprietor of the meat market at Putneyville, Armstrong Co.,
Pa., was born at Old Pike Furance, Clarion county, Nov. 21, 1862.John Myers, his grandfather, died in Clarion county. He married a Miss
Richey, and among their children was a son, Jacob R.Jacob R. Myers was a native of eastern Pennsylvania, and came to Clarion
county prior to the Civil war. They settled in I854 at Buffalo Furnace,
Armstrong county, where he engaged in the manufacture of charcoal, and later
of coke, continuing in that business in this and Clarion counties for several
years. From that industry he went to work at mining and later in 1879 located
permanently in Wayne township, where he followed farming and died. He married
Martha Blake, daughter of James Blake, of eastern Pennsylvania, and their
children who grew to maturity were: Henry; John; Joshua; William; Emeline who
married S. J. Keener; Sadie, who married S. J. Keener; Charles; Martha, who
married Charles Hinkley; and Jacob B. By a former marriage Mr. Myers had two
sons, James and Samuel.Joshua Myers received his education in the common schools in Armstrong
county, where be was brought up. At the age of fourteen he worked at the
mines, and followed that vocation off and on for twenty years. He, then worked
at the carpenter’s trade for ten years, and in 1910 embarked in the butcher
business at Putneyville, in which he still continues. He is honest,
conscientious and obliging, and does a good business.On Jan. 29, 1889, Mr. Myers married Ellen, daughter of Samuel and Salome
(Reitz) Nolf, of Westmoreland county, and they are the parents of seven
children, as follows: Edgar H.; Hazel; Mabel; Arthur: Iva; Wilda, and Mildred.
Mr. Myers is a follower-of the Republican party. He owns a good home, and is a
very desirable citizen of his community.Source: Page 757, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed February 1999 by Doris Rizza for the Armstrong County Beers
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