Philip van Ness Myers

Philip van Ness Myers was born in Tribes Hill, New York on August 10, 1846.

[3] The product of his travels were the two books, Life and Nature Under the Tropics from his previous expedition to South America 1867 also with his older brother, and Remains of Lost Empires.

Myers led Farmer's College until 1890, when he was appointed Professor of Economics and History at the University of Cincinnati.

In the latter work Myers condensed into a single volume the history of humanity from the dawn of time up to the present.

Upon his death, the Cincinnati Enquirer noted that "his historical narratives have been studied by probably more high school and college students than similar works of any one man."