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Dr. Frederic Clore Myers (1897-1961)

Dr. Myers was born August 26, 1897 in St Marys Ontario.His parents were Cleophus Morehouse Myers and Elizabeth Schoots. His parents and grandparents operated woolen mills in St Marys.

Dr. Myers completed high school in St Marys then, graduated from University Of Toronto in Medicine in 1922. Dr. Myers interned at the Detroit Receiving Hospital and spent two years in the logging camps in the far north.

About 1925 he came for a visit to St Catharines and decided to settle in Fonthill. He took over many of Dr. Emmett’s patients.

His office and living quarters were over the Imperial bank at the corner of Pelham Street and Highway 20.

In 1929 he married Mary Ellen Davidson, born June 1, 1901. She was the daughter of Stewart Elliott Davidson and Sarah Jane Robertshaw . He was a partner in Wellington nurseries. Stewart Davidson, it is said, introduced peaches to the Niagara area.

In 1929 Dr Myers and his wife built their home on Pelham Street. The shingle “Dr. F.C. Myers” hung there for over thirty five years.

Mary enjoyed her flower gardens.

Dr. Myers served in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps 1942-1946.

In 1931 they had a son Frederick Stewart, he studied theology and was an ordained Anglican Priest. He married Mary Stirtzinger.  He died at the age of 30 from cancer.

In 1937 Sarah Elizabeth was born. She became a registered nurse, she married Rev. Donald Neish, Anglican Priest and moved to Nova Scotia.

Mary was confined to a wheelchair with arthritis for much of her later life. Their son Stewart died in 1960.

Dr Myers died March1961 of a heart attack at age 63. The funeral took place at Holy Trinity church and he was buried in the Fonthill cemetery.

He was a very well liked family doctor. He delivered over 1500 babies, the first birth January 20,1925 and the last December 29, 1959.

His wife Mary died November 11, 1967.

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