He was elected to the Los Angeles Common Council, the governing body of the city, in a special election on September 6, 1853, for a term that ended May 4, 1854.
[2] He was also the Los Angeles agent for the David W. Alexander and Phineas Banning stagecoach company,[3] and in 1860 he opened Los Angeles's fourth drugstore.
[4] His partner in the enterprise on Main Street, "nearly opposite the Bella Union," was Dr. J. C. Welch, a South Carolina-born dentist.
[5] Myles was killed in a boiler explosion of the steamship Ada Hancock on April 27, 1863, in San Pedro harbor, an accident that took twenty-six lives.
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