J. Ross Myers
J. Ross Myers, president and treasurer of the Myers Company, of Steubenville, O., scene painters, decorators and expert fresco artists, was born at Steubenville, in 1874, and is a son of John K. Myers. The latter was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1843, and was a son of John Myers, who came to this section among the pioneers of 1800. John K. Myers founded the present business of the Myers Company.
J. Ross Myers has been identified with the decorating and painting business ever since he left school—in fact, may be said to have grown up in the industry which he has made his life work. In 1904 the Myers Company was organized and incorporated and the present officers are: J. Ross Myers president and treasurer and S. H. Carey vice president and secretary. All kinds of inside decorating is their specialty, expert workmen being employed in the fine fresco work, and they contract in every kind of scenic painting and general painting of every description. Their artistic decorating may be found in many of the finest buildings in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, and their contracts for scene painting come from all over the country. There are few houses of this kind in eastern Ohio that can enter into competition with the Myers Company, whose name stands for perfection in design and finish and punctuality and honesty in the practical part of the work.
In 1897 J. Ross Myers was married to Miss Daisy C. Johnson, of Cadiz, O., and they have four sons and one daughter: Walter, Charles, Ralph, John and Marion Marie. Mr. and Mrs. Myers are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910