FRED C. MYERS Fred C. Myers, a well-known resident of Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia, is agent for the Caledonian Insurance Company of Scotland. He was born in Bodenfelde, Hanover, Germany, in 1829, and is a son of Charles F. Myers, who fought under Wellington in the famous battle of Waterloo. Charles F. Myers, with his wife and son and daughter, after a voyage of six weeks, landed at Baltimore, Maryland, September 20, 1834, and then came in a road wagon over the National Road to Wheeling. Arriving at McCortney's yards on Main street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, Mr. Myers secured a skiff, in which the family rode 20 miles down the river. They went to the town of Capitan, Ohio, where his uncle, Mr. Schukhart, resided, it being through the letters of the latter that he was induced to come to this country. Two years later, in 1836, the family returned to Wheeling, where Mr. Myers for many years worked as a carpenter in the ship yards, building cabins on steamboats. The latter years of his life were spent in retirement at the home of our subject, where he died March 28, 1873, at the age of seventy-eight years, having been born in 1795. He married Dorothea Augustina Ference, who died January 15, 1866, at the age of sixty-weven years. Their elder daughter married Adam Weisgerber, whose sons are also residents of Wheeling, one of them, George, having been deputy sheriff for four years. Mr. Myers and his wife had four other children, after coming to America: One died in infancy at Capitan; Henry, who was born in Ohio and lives at Kiser, West Virginia; and William and Matilda, who were born and still reside in Wheeling. Fred C. Myers began to learn the trade of cabinetmaking in 1844, and served an apprenticeship of five years with the firm of Mendel and Harbour. After his marriage he engaged in the confectionary business on Eleventh (formerly Union) street until 1857, when he moved his business to No. 1046 Main street, where he remained until 1865. He then engaged in the millinery business, wholesale and retail, until 1876, the year in which one of his sons met his death in a steamer explosion at Pomeroy, Ohio. Mrs. Myers and nieces continued in the millinery business until the death of the former in 1891. Mr. Myers entered the insurance business as solicitor for the old Wheeling Fire and Marine Insurance Company, with which he was identoified until its absorption by the Caledonian Insurance Company in 1887. He is now agent for the latter company. The Wheeling Fire and Marine Insurance Company was organized in December, 1831, with a capital of $100,000, John McClure being first president, and M. W. Chapline, at that time mayor of Wheeling, secretary. The company operated in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky, also on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and tributaries. The directors elected January 2, 1832, at Beymer's Hotel, were as follows: James H. Forsyth, Manus Wilson, M. W. Chapline, W. Lambdin, W. B. Tyson, John List, Thomas Hughes, George Dulty, ? B. Zane. January 3, 1832, James H. Forsyth was elected president and Morgan Nelson, agent and secretary. On February 18, 183?, the latter resigned and was succeeded by Daniel Lamb. The latter in turn was succeeded, September 20, 1844, by Mr. Harding, his resignation having been handed in September 13 of the previous year. The company was reorganized in 1875, A. Wilson becoming president and C. H. Collier, secretary. The latter died in 1881, and was succeeded by Burney S. McClure. C. J. Rolling next became president and Wylie Irwin, secretary. Theodore Roller became secretary in March, 1886, and in May, 1897, became manager of the Wheeling branch of the Caledonian Insurance Company of Scotland, founded in 1805, and to which the business of the Wheeling Fire and Marine Insurance Company was turned over in 1887. The Caledonian is one of the most successful insurance companies in the state. Its office is situated near the corner of Twelfth and Main streets. Mr. Myers had the old book of the company bound and presented it to the Caledonian Insurance Company, a gift which was very much appreciated. He has ever been faithful to the interests of his employers, is a man of recognized ability, and stands high in the esteem of all with whom he is brought in contact. In 1850, Mr. Myers married Bertha Fox at Stamm & Franzheim's restaurant. She died December 24, 1891, at the age of sixty-one years, and left one son, Henry, who resides in North Wheeling and is employed in the blast furnace at Martin's Ferry. Another son, George, was killed in a steamboat explosion when twenty-five years of age. Mr. Myers has been a Republican since 1860; he was overseer of the poor eighteen months during the Civil War. He attends the Lutheran church. From "HISTORY OF WHEELING and Ohio County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens." Edited & Compiled by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer. Biographical Publishing, 1902. Sept 29, 2012 - Charles is evidently Carl in German. - Klaus Kunze sent the following information: Meyer, Carl Friedrich Ludwig, (b 12.5.1794 - d 28.3.1873 in Wheeling) Erfocht in der Schlacht bei Waterloo. Die Familie landete am 20.9.1834 in Baltimore, Maryland (Married) 26.12.1825 Dorothea Justine Fierenz (b 6.10.1799) (Children) (1) Elise Juliane Henriette, b 26.10.1826; m Adam Weisgerber in Wheeling (2) Carl Friedrich Ludwig, b 18.5.1829; baute als Fred C. Myers Kabinen furDampfboote in der Fabnkarbeiter. Mendel & Harbour; d 24.12.1891 (3) Elise Caroline Emilie, b 14.11.1831; d 20.6.1833 Stickhusten (4) Henry b Ohio (Ohio Co, WV?) lebte in Kiser, West Virginia (5) William b Ohio (Ohio Co, WV?) (6) Matilda b Wheeling (Ohio Co, WV), lebte dort noch 1902 (Linda Fluharty)