John A. Myers
The able and popular assistant cashier of the Wayne County National Bank of Wooster, Ohio, is most consistently accorded recognition in a work of the province assigned to the one at hand, since it has to do with the representative citizens of Wayne county, of which number he is unquestionably a worthy member and has played well his part in fostering the diversified interests of the same, and while yet a young man has shown what fidelity to duty, coupled with right principles, can accomplish. He is a native of this county, having been born near New Pittsburg, Chester township, on August 14, 1871, the son of David Myers of Wooster, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. He is worthy son of a worthy sire,--in fact, takes a delight in keeping untarnished the brilliant escutcheon of the Myers name, which has long been highly honored in this locality. He received a good practical education in the district schools of his township, later attending the high school at Wooster. When eighteen years of age he removed to Wooster with his parents, and attended Wooster University for a period of two years, during which time he made a very commendable record for both scholarship and deportment. Desiring to fit himself for a business career, he took a course in Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, graduating from the same with a very creditable record.
After he had finished his education, young Myers acted as deputy clerk of the courts at Wooster for six years, doing very creditable work, --in fact, he had mastered the details of the office so well that he attracted the notice of the officials of the Ashland & Wooster Railroad Company, who invited him to serve as their chief clerk with headquarters at Ashland, which position he held for a period of four years, giving his usual success. He returned to Wooster in 1903 and became assistant cashier of the Wayne County National Bank, which position he still holds, discharging the duties of the same in a manner that shows him to be a man of rare business qualities, alert, painstaking and eminently capable.
Mr. Myers was married on May 28, 1902, to Lydia C. George, a lady of culture and refinement, the daughter of D. C. and Harriet F. George, of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where Mrs. Myers was born and reared and where her family were long prominent. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Myers has been blessed by the birth of two children, namely: Laura Minerva, born September 13, 1903, and Claudia Virginia, born May 5, 1907.
Mr. Myers is now a member of the city school board, being the youngest member ever honored thus. He takes an abiding interest in local educational affairs, and the cause of education here has been augmented since he became a member of the same. Fraternally, Mr. Myers belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a loyal Democrat, and he and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian church, being liberal supporters of the same.
The Myers residence on Beall avenue is modern, beautifully located and nicely furnished, and is often the gathering place for many of the best people of Wooster where hospitality and friendship ever prevail. Mr. Myers is a man of pleasing address, frank, generous, courteous and straightforward.
From The History of Wayne County, Ohio, B. E. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, 1910