Biography

11/04/1836 - 12/05/1907


MYERS, Henry Schuyler, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, November 4, 1836 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; private, Company B, 68th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1865, Civil War); ropemaker, Weaver & Fitler; purveyor, Philadelphia Water Department; elected, police magistrate, Philadelphia (1881-1888); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1888 and 1890; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); inspector, Street Cleaning Bureau of Philadelphia; died, December 5, 1907 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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