Isaac E. Myers    

CAPT. ISAAC E. MYERS, Assistant Postmaster, Meadville, was born in Meadville, January 18, 1835, and is a son of Isaac and Lydia (Fox) Myers, of German descent, and who came to Meadville in 1825. His father, who was a watch-maker and jeweler, had a family of ten children, of whom Isaac E. is the sixth. He first learned the jewelry business under his father, and was in that industry in Meadville City from 1850 to 1862, when, being drafted, he was elected Captain of Company K, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth P. D. M., in which regiment he served until 1863. Then he volunteered in 1864, and raised Company F, of the One Hundred and Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; was elected Captain of his company and served until the close of the war, being present at Lee’s surrender. He then received an appointment as Mail Agent, and served six years; next he studied medicine, and for one year he clerked in a drug store. Then he was appointed Clerk in the Meadville Postoffice, and afterward to his present position of Assistant Postmaster, which he has held for several terms. He was married in 1858 to Maria, daughter of James Swager, of Mercer County, Penn., and their children are Sarah M., L. C. (a tinner), I. E., F. G. and C. H. Our subject and wife are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Capt. Myers has taken an active part in matters pertaining to the militia, and since he returned from the war has acted as Captain in the same, his company leading the militia of Pennsylvania in Washington at the inauguration of the lamented President Garfield.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 754

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