HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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chased it, and lived there all his life. 

 He followed blacksmithiiig for many- 

 years in the old smith-shop built by 

 his father. He married Hanna Derstein, 

 of Rockhill, where her ancestors were 

 early settlers, born January 12, 1778, 

 died August 27, 1848, and they were 

 the parents of seven children, viz.: 

 Amos, born 1800, died 1825, unmarried; 

 John, died in infancy; Catharine, born 

 February 14, 1803, married Abraham 

 Wismer; Michael, born May 9, 1804, re- 

 moved to Fairfield county, Ohio, where he 

 died in 1889; Samuel, the father of the 

 subject of this sketch; Abraham, born 

 1807, died 1834, unmarried; Charles, who 

 married Susan Myers and left several 

 sons still residing in Bucks county; and 

 Isaac, who died in 1845, leaving an only 

 daughter, Hannah Wolfsberger, of 

 Philadelphia. Christian Myers, the 

 father, died November 15, 1850. 



Samuel Myers, son of Christian and 

 Hanna (Derstein) Myers, was born on 

 the old homestead in Plumstead, De- 

 cember 27, 1805, and lived there all his 

 life, dying February 4, 1879. He prob- 

 ably learned the blacksmith trade w^th 

 his father, but never followed it fur- 

 ther than to do his own work in that 

 line. He was a mechanical genius, do- 

 ing his own shoe and harness making, 

 and manufacturing most of the imple- 

 ments of husbandry needed on the farm. 

 Those were the days when the farmer 

 was almost independent of the outside 

 world except for the luxuries of life. 

 Mr. Myers raised and prepared the flax 

 and wool for the spinning wheel, and 

 the clothes of the family were exclu- 

 sively the product of the spinning of 

 Mrs. Myers, and the weaving of the 

 father. Samuel Myers married Decem- 

 ber 24, 1835, Susanna Nash, born De- 

 cember 30, 1810, daughter of Jacob and 

 Elizabeth (Meyer) Nash, the latter be- 

 ing also a descendant of Hans Meyer,, 

 the emigrant, through his eldest son 

 Henry, who married Barbara Miller, and 

 their son Henry, born 1750, (died in 

 Plumstead) who married Susan Smith. 

 Elizabeth (Meyer) Nash, the daughter 

 of the last named Henry, was born August 

 16, 1786, and married Jacob Nash, of 

 Tinicum, son of Joseph Nash, and grand- 

 son of William Nash, another pioneer 

 of Bedminster. Samuel and Susanna 

 (Nash) Myers were the parents of eight 

 children, viz.: Hannah, died in infancy; 

 Tobias N., married Rosanna Kratz, and 

 lived for a time in Plumstead, now a 

 resident of Philadelphia: Jacob, married 

 Maria Myers, and resides in Hilltown, 

 Bucks county; Christian M., the sub- 

 ject of this sketch; Amos, married Hilda 

 Myers, and resides on the homestead in 

 Plumstead, being the fourth generation 

 in the township; Elizabeth, died at the 

 age of nineteen years; Anna, widow of 

 David Kratz; and Charles, deceased. 

 Samuel Myers was a member of the old 

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Deep Run Mennonite congregation, and 

 a man much respected in the commun- 

 ity. He never held or sought office. 



Christian M. Myers, son of Samuel 

 and Susanna (Nash) Myers, who born 

 April 29, 1841, on the old homestead in 

 Plumstead, and educated at the public 

 schools. He inherited the mechanical 

 genius of his father, and made the first 

 hay rake and hay drag used on the home 

 farm, as well as a number of other im- 

 plements of husbandry, and, in the ear- 

 lier years of the conduct of the mill 

 where he now resides, he dressed his 

 own mill picks and did the necessary 

 milhvrighting about the mill. On his 

 marriage in 1863 he took charge of the 

 Stover mill, on Tohickon creek, in 

 Bedminster township, near Pipersville, 

 Pennsylvania, belonging to his father-in-law, 

 Samuel Stover, and conducted it until 

 1904, keeping in pace with the times in 

 the installation of improved machinery, 

 having in 1885, equipped the mill with 

 the latest improved roller process for 

 the manufacture of flour, and again in 

 1903, installed the Gyrator system of 

 bolting and other improvements. In 

 1904 he retired and turned the business 

 over to Norman L. Worman, who had 

 been his foreman and head miller for 

 many years, and who is now doing a 

 flourishing business there. Mr. Myers is 

 a strong advocate of higher education, 

 and has given each of his sons a col- 

 lege education. He and his wife are not 

 members of any church, but are liberal 

 supporters of church, Sabbath school 

 and charitable w'ork. and to which and 

 the temperance cause they have devoted 

 much time and labor. Mr. Myers mar- 

 ried, February 7, 1863, Eliza Beidler 

 Stover, born February 22, 1844, daugh- 

 ter of Samuel and Anna (Beidler) Stov- 

 er, an account of whose ancestry fol- 

 lows, and they are parents of three sons, 

 viz.: I. Samuel Horace Myers, born May 

 9, 1864, a graduate of Lafayette Col- 

 lege, class of 1888, and of the law de- 

 partment of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, July 17, 1892. He was admitr 

 ted to the Philadelphia bar in 1892, and 

 has since practiced there with success. 

 He married, February 22, 1893, Elean- 

 or Matilda Stover, daughter of Isaac 

 S. and Ellen A. (Capner) Stover, and 

 they are the parents of one daughter 

 Roberta Eliza Myers, born October 9, 

 1897. 2. Hugh Ely Myers, born August 

 30, 1871. graduated at Lafayette Col- 

 lege June 21, 1893, took a two years 

 post-graduate course there in chemistry 

 and is now employed as chemist with 

 the United Engineering and Foundry 

 Company, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 

 3. Ira Stover Myers, born August 3, 

 1876, educated at Germantown Academy 

 and Lafayette College, graduated at 

 College in class of 1898, is now in the 

 office of his brother, Samuel Horace 

 in Philadelphia. 



