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NIMROD
MYERS. Among the solid men of
Springfield who have reaped success from a
A native of Frederick County, Md., the subject
of this sketch was born near Frederick, the county seat, September 29, 1813.
His father, John H. Myers, was a native of England.
The mother died when her son Nimrod was only two years old, and he
consequently knows little of the family history. They were the parents of five
children-three daughters and two sons-of whom Nimrod was the fourth born.
He and his sister Margaret are the only survivors.
The latter is a resident of London, this State.
After his mother's death Mr. Myers was taken into the home of his uncle,
David Morgan, with whom he lived until a youth of seventeen years.
Going then to Boonesboro, Md., he commenced learning the carpenter's
trade, at which he served an apprenticeship of three and one-half years.
Afterward he went to Hagarstown, where he worked at his trade for a
period of eighteen years.
In 1851 Mr. Myers. leaving his native State,
came to Springfield and put up a small cottage, which he occupied with his
family four years. In the meantime
he followed his trade and operated as a contractor, superintending the erection
of many of the most important dwellings and business houses of the city of
Springfield. For the long period of
thirty-five years he was thus engaged, and accumulated a competence, so that in
1878 he wisely retired from these arduous labors and now employs his time in
looking after his property and farming lands. He has in German Township two hundred and seventy-seven
acres, in a high state of cultivation and supplied with modern farm buildings.
The family residence was built in 1859, and is
Mr. Myers was married in 1837, over fifty-three years ago, to Miss Mary A.
Lushbaugh, of
Hagarstown, Md.
Mrs. Myers was born in that town in 1816, and is a daughter of John
Lushbaugh, who
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