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HOWARD A. MYERS
Born in Warren County, Indiana, on
December 27, 1872 Howard A. Myers is a son of Montgomery Myers, an Indiana
farmer who lived to be eighty-five years of age. The mother, whose maiden name was Ellen McDade, passed away at the age of forty-six. Howard Myers was one of a large family, as
follows: Alice, now in Idaho; George;
Belle, now in Montana; Adeline, deceased; William, who is also in California;
Martha; Perry, in Washington; Howard A. of this review; Emma; and Walter, also
in Washington.
Howard A. Myers attended the Prairie
Chapel district school in Warren County, and remained at home until he was of
age. On March 7, 1894 he was married at
Boswell, Indiana, to Miss Lily M. Felix, a native of that same vicinity, and
the daughter of William and Emma Felix.
There were five children in her parents’ family: Mary, Joseph, Bell, Lily and Charles.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Myers removed to White County, Indiana, where with his brother Perry, Mr. Myers
bought a quarter-section of land, which they farmed jointly for six years and
then sold. Next the two brothers went to
Oklahoma, and there bought a quarter-section of land, which they also sold
after farming it for three years. Perry
Myers then went to Washington; but Howard Myers came to California, settling
for awhile in Kern County, where he rented twenty acres of alfalfa, in the
“Weed Patch” close to Bakersfield. Next
he removed to Stockton, and entered the business field as a distributor of oil
burners. He had a shop for two years on
Market Street, and was also located on California Street.
In 1906 he removed to the
northeastern section of San Joaquin County and traded his Stockton property for
a quarter-section of land in the Brandt school district, about six miles
southeast of Clements; and in 1919 he added to his ranch 640 acres of fine
grain land, so that today he owns a section and a quarter. He has about eighty head of stock, and raises
wheat, barley and oats. He also raises
about 150 turkeys each season. In
addition to the ranch which he owns, he also leases land, farming in all about
2,200 acres. He leases the Connelly and Jahant ranches north of Woodbridge, and also the Thompson
Folger ranch of about 900 acres, and he has about 400 acres three miles to the
south of his home. He uses two Yuba
tractors, and has a full modern equipment of grain-farming machinery for
operation on an extensive scale.
Seven children were granted to Mr.
and Mrs. Myers: Minnie, Mrs. Kepple, who died at the age of twenty-two years, together
with her infant child; Charles, who is at home, farming with his father; Perry,
ranching for himself; Elwood, also at home, associated with his father; Mary,
now Mrs. Peterson; and Elsie and Richard, still at home. Politically Mr. Myers is a Republican.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1618-1619. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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