Born in Clinton County, Indiana, On December 21, 1831 and died at Milford, Iowa. on Saturday, January 24, 1903. In 1851 he moved with his parents to Fayette county, Iowa, where he attended school. When the civil war broke out he was a student at the Upper Iowa University, at Fayette, but deeming his country's call of a greater importance than learning he gave up his book to shoulder a musket and marched away to fight for the flag of his fathers, He enlisted as first sergeant in Co. H, 38th Iowa Volunteer Infantry on August 12,1862, and served his country well until his discharge at Houston, Texas, August 15,1865. He was married to Miss Mary E. Shannon at Toulon, Illinois, May 15, 1866, and located in Polk county, Iowa. He resided in Iowa the remainder of his life. with the exception of three years spent in Kansas and five years in Nebraska. In 1895 he located in Milford, buying the grain and coal business of Hall Bros., taking in as partner his son, K, S. Myers. They sold out in 1901 to J, E, Knudson & Son and engaged in the grain, lumber and coal business at Arnolds Park. In 1899 he was elected as a member of the Twenty-eighth General Assembly, serving his district well.