CHARLES W. MYERS has passed practically his entire life in Richland county, having been thirteen years of age at the time of accompanying his mother to this section of the state, and being now a representative farmer of the town of Bloom. He has witnessed the development of the county from the wilderness and has done his part in furthering the march of progress, being a loyal and substantial citizen and having been one of those who went forth from the county as a soldier in the Civil War. Mr. Myers was born in Allen county, Ind., Feb. 27, 1842, and is a son of John and Rhoda (Peckham) Myers, both native of Carroll county, O., where they were reared and where their marriage was solemnized. They became pioneers of Allen county, Ind., where the father reclaimed a farm in the midst of the forest and where he died in 1850, his wife long surviving him, and passing the closing years of her life in the home of the subject of this sketch, in Richland county, where she died in 1881. Both were devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Their eldest child, Elizabeth, is married and resides in Fayette county, Ia.; John F. and Rachel Ann are deceased; Charles W., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth. His mother contracted a second marriage, becoming the wife of Henry Clayton, who died in Allen county, Ind., being survived by his only child, Theidosia, who. is the wife of Orlando Robins, of Richland Centre. In 1855 Mrs. Clayton came with her children to Richland county, Wis., in company with her father, Charles Peckham, and others from Allen county, Ind., making the trip with teams and wagons and bringing a considerable number of cattle. The mother of the subject of this sketch secured eighty acres of wild land in section 23, town of Bloom. Three acres were cleared and a log cabin was erected in this clearing. She remained on this homestead many years, effecting the reclamation of a considerable portion of the same, and finally sold the property. After passing six months in Iowa she returned to Richland county, where she remained until her death. Charles W. Myers secured his rudimentary education in a primitive log schoolhouse in his native county, and had but little opportunity for attending school after the removal of the family to Wisconsin. He was reared to maturity on the home farm and has continuously been identified with agricultural pursuits. In 1875 he bought l00 acres of land in section 34, town of Bloom, a small clearing having been made and a log house erected. He made excellent improvements on the place, the greater part of which he brought under effective cultivation, and on this homestead he continued to reside until 1902, when he sold the farm and bought a small piece of land in the town of Marshall, remaining there a few months and then buying his present farm, of seven acres, in section 26, Bloom township, where he is living practically retired. In March, 1865, Mr. Myers enlisted in Company D, Eleventh Wisconsin volunteer infantry, with which he was in service in Montgomery and Mobile, Ala., and in the city of New Orleans, serving from March to September, 1865, and then receiving his honorable discharge; he was mustered out in the city of Madison, Wis., and then returned to his home. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. In politics Mr. Myers is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the Republican party, and the confidence and esteem in which he is held in the community is shown in the official preferment which has come to him. He was town assessor six years, was chairman of the town board of Bloom for three years and served an equal period on the side board. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1864, Mr. Myers was united in marriage to Miss Jemima Snyder, who was born in Allen county, Ind., being a daughter of John E. Snyder, a native of Pennsylvania and an early settler in Richland county. To Mr. and Mrs. Myers have been born eight children, of whom six are living: Mary A. is the wife of Edward Essex, a farmer of Bloom township; Mahala is the wife of Frederick Wright, of Winnebago, Minn.; Ida May is the wife of Claude Benett, of Juneau county, Wis.; Delbert.. who married Miss Delilah Clark, is a farmer of Bloom township; Minta is the wife of Ralph Barnes, of Dayton township; John F. is deceased; Ethel is the wife of Lawrence E. Kidd, of Bloom township; and Sarah C. is deceased.