Gustavus Adolphus Myers

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Myers family papers, 1843–1929. 81 items. Mss1M9924b. Microfilm reel C302. This collection primarily concerns Gustavus Adolphus Myers (1801–1869), Richmond lawyer and municipal officer, and his son, artist William Barksdale Myers. An 1845 affidavit of Thomas Peyton Gwynn of Amelia County concerns the slave Sally, formerly the property of Ann Graham (section 8). The same section includes a bond, ca. 1843, of William Branch Giles to Eliza G. Lambert of Richmond for the hire of John, and accounts, 1847, of the sale of slaves at auction for the benefit of Gallegher & Oldner of Richmond.

https://virginiahistory.org/sites/default/files/uploads/AAG.pdf

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70169227/gustavus-adolphus-myers

The first director of Hollywood to die in office. Myers was one of the original subscribers and the company's esteemed legal counsel. His latin inscription on his tombstone reads: "Ovis Desiderio sit pudor aut modus tam cari capitis" (What sense decency should longing have or what limit [to] love for one so dear).

Here painting William Barksdale Myers made of his father. https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_959.34

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/G353-MCL Note in family search states: Note

Gustavus became Richmond, Va. leading Jew, serving for nearly three decades on the City Council and for 12 years as its president.