John Cunningham Myers and Margaret Emma Lawson

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Husband John Cunningham Myers ¹

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           Born: 3 Aug 1870 - Duboistown, Armstrong Twp, Lycoming Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Myers (1838-      ) 1
         Mother: Elsie Teufel (1843-      ) 1

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Wife Margaret Emma Lawson ²

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           Born: 9 Jan 1874 - Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Father: Daniel Augustus Lawson (1844-Aft 1918) 3 4
         Mother: Isabel Jane McCurdy (1851-1915) 2

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Children

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1 F Annabel Elizabeth Myers ⁵

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           Born: 3 Jan 1902 5
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General Notes: Husband - John Cunningham Myers

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He received his education in the schools of his birthplace. In 1889 he left home and, to use his own words, "followed up logs on the Susquehanna river," passing through Columbia, Yorkhaven and Sparrow's Point, and then returning to Williamsport. His next migration was to Davis, West Virginia, where he took charge of a lath mill. At the end of a year he was back in Williamsport, where he worked for a time in a saw mill, going then to North Bend, Clinton County, where he was similarly employed, eventually returning to Williamsport. In 1900 he came to Ligonier, Pennsylvania, and took charge of the Byers & Allen lath mill, putting in all the machinery, purchasing the timber and conducting the entire plant until 1908. In selling the output he was extremely successful. In 1910 he engaged in the ice cream manufacturing business and became the owner of an ice house and an ice cream manufacturing plant. He deliverd ice in the borough of Ligonier and supplied Idlewild Park with ice and ice cream.
Another sphere in which Mr. Myers demonstrated success was that of poultry raising. His stock included Partridge Plymouth Rocks and he attended poultry shows in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago. As a poultry raiser he won many ribbons at the Grand Central Palace, New York, and in Pittsburgh. Politically Mr. Myers was a Republican, but his various business enterprises never left him much time to devote to public affairs.
He and his family enrolled in the Ligonier Chapter of the American Red Cross Society and were earnest workers in the cause. They were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Ligonier.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 455.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 457.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 324.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 456, 856.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 456.