Bios: LAWRENCE BYERS, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      LAWRENCE BYERS,
  
  [p. 944] a prominent farmer and member of the School Board of Pulaski
  Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, is the owner of a fine farm of
  155 acres, and is engaged in general farming. He was born in that
  township January 2, 1859, and is a son of Ambrose and Mary (McCracken)
  Byers, he a native of Lawrence County, and she of Mercer County.
  
  William Byers, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, it is thought,
  was born in Virginia, and became a settler in Pulaski Township at a time
  when it was sparsely settled and the land uncleared, it being at that
  time a part of Mercer County.
  
  Ambrose Byers was born in 1824, and followed farming throughout his
  entire life, dying in 1887. He was rated among the substantial and
  leading men of the township, and was ever among the foremost in matters
  of public improvements. He was a consistent Republican in politics until
  1872, after which he gave his encouragement and support to the cause of
  Prohibition. He and his wife were parents of the following children:
  John F., a successful attorney at law, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Charles
  S., of Kansas; Lizzie M., of Pulaski Township; Lawrence; Ovid A., a
  practicing attorney in Seattle, Wash.; Alpheus, of Seattle, Wash.;
  Horace G., professor of chemistry in the State University of Washington,
  at Seattle; Lottie B., deceased, and Carrie H., a teacher in the public
  schools of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
  
  Lawrence Byers was reared to manhood in his native township, and there
  received a preliminary educational training in the public schools,
  supplemented by a three-years' course at Grove City College. He then
  engaged as an instructor in the schools, teaching in Pulaski Township
  for a period of twelve years. He then turned his attention to farming in
  Pulaski Township, and has one of the best improved farms in the
  vicinity. He farms along the most modern and approved methods, and has
  met with more than ordinary success. He is a broad and liberal-minded
  man and evinces a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the general
  welfare of the community, being especially active in furthering the
  cause of education and bettering the school system. He is a
  Prohibitionist in politics, and is serving his second term as a member
  of the School Board.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
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  Updated: 6 Feb 2002