The Poems of John Francis Myers

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Excerpt from The Poems of John Francis Myers: Together With Biography John Francis Myers was born in Christian county, Kentucky, on December 13, 1834. At the age of ten months he came with his parents to McLean county, Illinois, where they purchased, settled on and improved what is now the McLean County Poor Farm. The wife and mother passed to spirit life in September, 1857, and in 1859, the children all having grown to maturity, the father sold the farm to the county. John F. Myers attended the country district schools a part of each year from the time he was six years old until he reached the age of nineteen, when he entered the Wesleyan University, of Bloomington, Illinois, attending that school several terms while Prof. Sears was in control, and Prof. Northup, Profs. McNulty and Adams were teachers. Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, Hon. James S. Ewing, Hon. Geo. P. Davis, and many other worthy youths of Bloomington and vicinity were students. On December 22, 1857, he was married to Miss Sarah C. Birdsell, of Randolph's Grove, near Heyworth, Illinois, and has resided on a farm the greater part of the time since his marriage, locating at his present residence, 924 West Front street, Bloomington, Illinois, March 1st, 1898. He resided on a farm near Fairbury, Illinois, for twenty-three years, and during that time engaged in general farming, raising, feeding and dealing in hogs, cattle and horses. He held the offices of school director, justice of the peace and commissioner of highways, the most of the time conjointly, for twenty years. He inherited from his parents a natural talent for music and poetry, he played the fife for military drill for the McLean county regiment of militia, a regiment of which his father was fife major, at the age of eight years. At twelve years he developed a talent for poetry, and wrote numerous ditties and ballads on comic and dramatic circumstances in rhyme for the amusement of his friends, many of which were too full of mirth and sarcasm to meet the approbation of the author at this time and so will be omitted from this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.