California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


OLIVER PERRY MEYERS.  Son of Christian and Mary A. Kinnaman Meyers, was born in Ashland, Ashland 
County, Ohio, August 23, 1845, where he resided until 1858. In 1856 his father came to California, and 
located in business in Marysville; and in 1858, Oliver, with his mother, brother and sister, came to 
California via the Isthmus, and joined the father. At Marysville he attended the common schools and 
the Marysville Academy until 1865, when he began an apprenticeship to the jeweler's business under 
Frank E. Smith, and served three years. In 1868 he went to Sacramento, and followed his trade for one 
year, when he went to Los Angeles and spent one year. He then went to San Francisco, and accepted 
a position as clerk in Henry Mayer's jewelry store on Montgomery street, where he remained until 
1877. He then came to Napa, and opened his present business, where he has since remained, and 
now enjoys a large share of the patronage of the place, and is a highly esteemed citizen of Napa City. 
His parents and sister now reside in San Francisco.