From the Rock County, Wisconsin biographies
lithograph from from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. I," p. 258 |
From the Rock County, Wisconsin biographies:
"PETER MYERS, owner and proprietor of the MYERS House; born in France; is the son of Peter MYERS, who served in the grand army of Napoleon the First. Peter MYERS, Jr., came to Stark Co., Ohio, in 1832; in 1833, he removed to Buffalo, N.Y., and learned the business of a butcher, which he carried on until he came to Janesville, in March 1844; carried on the same business here for fifteen years; Mr. MYERS then built the well-known hotel, the Myers House, and erected one of the most elegant opera-houses in the Northwest, and is the owner of some of the finest buildings, both for residence and business purposes in the State; he has been prominently connected with various business enterprises likely to result in benefit to the city; he is a Director of the Janesville Cotton Manufacturing Company. Married Julia BLAKESLEE, a native of Pennsylvania, in July , 1846; they have four sons and one daughter.
Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis." (c)1879, pp. 715-716; lithograph from from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. I," p. 258. |