MYERS, Noah Elias - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Noah Elias Myers, for many years one of the most prominent merchants in the city, died at 6 o'clock this morning at his home, 404 South Washington Street, where he had lived for fifty years. Mr. Myers had been in ill health for a long time due to heart trouble but had been confined to his bed only three days. Mr. Myers was born November 19, 1840 in Fountain county but came to Crawfordsville at an early age. For a few years he was a clerk in the Robert Vance grocery on north Green street. Then be became interested with Henry Wasson and later with Daniel W. Roundtree in a novelty and dry goods store, 122 East Main Street. On the dissolution of the last partnership he opened a dry goods store in the Harter block on east main street. This store he operated for a number of years before forming a partnership with Julius Charnl which partnered with him for sixteen years. After operating the East Main Street store, for a short time he moved to the corner of Washington and Main streets now known as the Crawfordsville Trust Company corner. Following this partnership he became the manager of The Peoples Dry Goods Company on North Washington Street for eight years and then followed a period of seven years in the grocery business on the corner of Walnut and Main streets. He married Elizabeth P. McClelland January 4, 1866, who passed from this world August 18, 1914. To this union were born three children, all living, Mrs. Charles S. Kritz of Waveland, Ernest M. Myers and Mrs. Harold O. Burgess of this city. A sister, Mrs. John Ryan, 500 west Main street, this city, is the only living member of the old family. In infancy he was baptized in the Lutheran church, Wallace, Ind, but in later years transferred his membership to the Wabash Avenue Presbyterian church of this city of which church he became deeply interested. He was the oldest living member of the I.O.O.F Lodge No. 223, also a member of the Patriarch Military and Encampment No. 15 and was a life long Democrat. Funeral services will be held at the home at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Interment at Oak Hill. Dr. G.L. Mackintosh will be in charge of the service.

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