Jacob A. Myers, son of Henry and Nancy (Jameson) Myers, was born in New Chester, Adams county, Pennsylvania. He became the owner of a farm on the Little Bermudian creek, and built and operated the Good Intent Woolen Factory. In 1855 he became associated with his brother-in- law, John B. McCreary, in coal mining, and with his wife and five children moved to the coal regions of Tremont, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. Here the family resided for one year, and then moved to Audenried, Carbon County, where the Honey Brook coal mines, of which he became owner, were situated. In 1865 he retired from business, and the family located permanently in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Jacob A. Myers married Sarah Ann Deardorff, born at Deardorff's Mill, near Petersburg, Adams county, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1821, daughter of John Deardorff and descendant of George Deardorff, a German Tunker, who settled in Germantown in 1729, and became one of the organizers of the first Tunker (or Dunkard) church in that place. Jacob A. Myers died in September, 1865, the father of six children, who were educated in the Moravian schools and the local universities.