MYERLY, SHELLER & HARROD
Myerly, Sheller & Harrod, attorneys at law, land, loan, insurance and abstract office. The business was established in 1879, by R. E. Carruthers. Messrs. J. B. Myerly & Co. purchased the office Jan. 1st, 1880, D. B. Sheller joining in March of the same year, and Mr. Harrod in Jan., 1881, thus forming the present partnership. Mr. Myerly came to Harlan from Des Moines, and is a graduate from the Iowa City University; attends to the law practice of the firm. Mr. Sheller came from Dallas Center, where he was for several years in the Dallas Center bank; Mr. Harrod, is from Shelby, this county. Mr. H. was elected county treasurer in the fall of 1879, and at the expiration of the term became a partner in the present firm. They have an extensive and growing business, are agents for the Hamburg American Packet Company, Red Star Line, and American Steamship Company, for the sale of emigrant tickets, and have a complete set of abstract books of this county.
Transcribed February, 2018 by Cheryl Siebrass from: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, published in Sioux City, IA.: Western Publishing Company, 1882, pg. 421-422.
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