Mr. Myers closed out his butcher shop and devoted himself to the pork packing business.

The evidence

• “Myers, is one of the finest in the city. In 1850 Mr. Myers closed out his butcher shop and devoted himself to the pork packing business, in which he amassed his wealth.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 381 / book p. 875

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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