Biographies - Elmira Township

Myrtle G. Brace, born in Washington county, N. Y., in 1808, settled in Stark county in 1835 or 1836, preempting a one-quarter section in Elmira township, subsequently purchased 170 acres, and set out the groves and orchards, and in 1850 built a large farm-house.

His sons Orlando and Charles, served in the One-hundred-and-twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry and Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, respectively, the former being wounded at Spanish Fort.

A reference to the general history points out his service as justice of the peace and representative. While returning from Chicago, where he was a juror in the United States court, he died on the cars. (Vide History of Orlando Brace.)