J. Upton Myers, son of Jacob A. and Sarah Ann (Deardorff) Myers, was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, in October 1853. He was educated in the Moravian schools and Bloomsburg Normal School. He has been an ardent sportsman, and spent many seasons hunting and fishing in the Rockies when the West was in its wilder and more romantic period. He is a member of the Bethlehem Club, the Northampton County Country Club, and was a member of the old Frohsinn, a singing society of male voices, which was an outstanding feature of Bethlehem life for many years.

Mr. Myers married. May 23, 1900, Elizabeth Fetter Lehman, daughter of B. E. and Harriett Matilda (Fetter) Lehman, and they are the parents of one son, Richmond Elmore.