J.C. Meyers
grocer, Liscomb; born in Tennessee in 1842; came to this county in 1849; he broke a portion of the prairie where Marshalltown now stands. Has held offices of Town Clerk, City Councilman, and is Mayor of the city. He enlisted in the Iowa V. I., and served three years and ten months, and was in all of the battles in which the regiment was engaged. He married Miss Mary C. Gateley in 1866; she was born in Iowa; has five children--Ida B., Eva V., Nettie M., William R. and Frank I.
p.584, Liscomb Township
--Taken from “The History of Marshall
County Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its
Cities, Towns, &r.,” and published by Western Historical Company of Chicago