Excerpt from A Standard History of Sauk County Wisconsin, Vol. 2: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, With Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development

When most of Wisconsin was still a wilderness Mr. Myers found a great delight in spending a large part of the Winter hunting. He was as accurate and skillful a Nimrod as he was in his trade. In one day during the year 1860 he shot twenty-one deer. As a hunting exploit that stands out all the more remarkable when it is remembered that he did the execution with a muzzle-loading gun. This trusty hunting piece was made by a man named Clark Herford at Madison, Wisconsin. Mr. Myers also had his share of Indian adventure when Wisconsin's woods were filled with Indians as well as wild game. The Indians would frequently steal part of the game he shot, and that usually caused some trouble until Mr. Myers had shown the red men his determination and ability to stand by his rights.

Mr. Myers has been a democrat and cast his first vote back in the days when James K. Polk was President and about the time the Mexican war started. However, he has usually exercised his franchise for the best man in local affairs. He is himself of a Methodist family, while his first wife was a Baptist and the present Mrs. Myers belongs to the Reformed Church.

Walworth delavan porter. A life long resident of Wisconsin and one who has witnessed and taken part in the development of the southern part of the state, 'walworth Delavan Porter is now living in retirement at Baraboo, where he is one of his community's best known citizens. He is a veteran of the Civil war and for some years was engaged in business at Baraboo, in addition to which he spent a long period in the pursuits of the soil, and now, in his seventy-eighth year, is in the enjoyment of those comforts which are attained through a lifetime of industry and well-directed effort.

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