John Myers moved "to Waterloo county, Ontario, Canada, arriving there in April, 1832. Here he was married to Mary Wenger, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who had preceded him to the province with her widowed mother. In 1834, he purchased the north half of lot No. 22 (one hundred and eighty acres) of the German Company tract in the township of Woolwich. Four years later he moved into the log house of this forest-hidden home (which became the birthplace of "I. W."), one mile east of Heidelburg. He had been one of Her Majesty's magistrates for several years, when, in 1841, he was elected a member of the council of the district of Wellington. He represented Woolwich township and the entire "Queen's Bush" territory to Lake Huron. Later, when county authority was established, he represented Woolwich in the county council till 1863. He had six sons and seven daughters. At his death, which occurred in 1883, his estate was valued at $43,000. The stone residence which he built on his homestead, remains a monument to his rugged industry." [1]
[1] I. L. Stuart, History of Franklin County, Iowa, Vol. 2 (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing, 1914), 377, [HathiTrust].