This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Myers, Immel Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi2.2ACIB/6221 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 1021. TOWN OF BEETOWN JOHN MYERS, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Beetown; born in 1826, in Canada; was a son of Michael and Ann Myers; he became an active young man at the age of 22, and came to Wisconsin and worked in the pinery; then to Taylor Co., Iowa, for two years; came back to Wisconsin and lived one year; he then went to California, where he lived for one year and a half; moved then to Grant Co., Wis., near Beetown; began farming in 1867. He married Miss Mary J. Immel, a daughter of A. Immel; he went in debt for a large farm, but was prosperous and paid for it; he raised five children - William M., Philip H., Bertha R., Mary E., Ettie B.; has 240 acres of land. Politics, Republican. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]