US Congressman, Lawyer, Journalist. He was a United States Representative from the State of Pennsylvania. He was born one of three children to Michael Dickey Meyers (1809-1867), and his wife Sarah W. Schaff Meyers (1811-1886), near New Centerville, Milford Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on July 6, 1833. He was educated locally and attended the distinguished Somerset Academy in Somerset, Pennsylvania, and Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, (now Washington and Jefferson College), in Washington, Pennsylvania. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced his practice of law in 1855. He then took an interest in politics and served a term as a Member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1864. He also served as a Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1864, 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896, and 1900. He also became interested in journalism pursuits and became the editor of Bedford Gazette Newspaper of Bedford, Pennsylvania, in 1868, and editor of the Harrisburg Daily Patriot Newspaper of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, also in 1868. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative John Cessna (1821-1893), on March 4, 1871. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Pennsylvania's 16th District (Forty-Second Congress), in the United States House of Representatives serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1873. He was an unsuccessful Candidate for re-election to the Forty-Third Congress in 1872. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative John Cessna (1821-1893), who he had previously succeeded. He was also personally appointed by then-President of the United States Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), to serve as Postmaster of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from 1886 to 1891. After leaving the United States Congress and retiring from politics, he resumed his journalism pursuits as publisher of the Daily Star Independent Newspaper in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was also engaged in public utilities in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, until his death on August 11, 1918, at the age of 85. He passed away from complications of the stomach flu in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on August 11, 1918, at the age of 85. Following his death, his funeral service was held at his residence at No. 11 North Front Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and at the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and he was buried in Harrisburg Cemetery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was married to Susan Catherine Koontz Meyers (1831-1911), in Somerset Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on April 6, 1854. The couple who were together until her death had seven children including, Rose S. "Mumma" Meyers (1856-1918), Edwin Koontz Meyers (1858-1898), Henry S. "Harry" Meyers (1860-1920), Margie E. Meyers Enterline" (1862-1920), Susan Irene Meyers Africa (1866-1933), William Koontz Meyers Sr. (1867-1944), and an Infant Meyers (1888-1888). His wife Susan passed away in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on October 28, 1911, at the age of 80, and she was also buried in Harrisburg Cemetery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.