James Myers

James Myers

Member

Photo credit:

Ellis, Franklin and Samuel Evans. History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of May of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883.

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1862 Representative Republican
Counties Lancaster

Biography

11/25/1820 - 10/22/1872


MYERS, James, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, November 25, 1820 in Myerstown, Lebanon County, Pa.; coal miner; pig iron manufacturer; owner and operator, Donegal Furnace (1847-1872); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1861; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1862); died, October 22, 1872 in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Bethel Cemetery, Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.


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