About

Born in Leoville (P.E.I.) in 1885, Frank Herbert Myers grew up a French-speaking Catholic. In the 1911 Canada Census, he is listed as a farmer living with his parents in Miminagash (P.E.I). He crossed the US-border in 1910 and 1913, on which occasions he is listed as a mill hand and a fireman, respectively. By 1913, he seems to have followed his brother Edward to Old Town, where the latter worked at the Bangor Water Company and later at the Penobscot Chemical Fiber Company. In 1916, Myers first advertised in the Old Town Enterprise as a photographer and owner of "The F.H. Myers' Studio." He would continue in this line of work until 1953, when he officially retired. He died in 1956. Over the years, he took many class photos and pictures of social gatherings, almost exclusively in the Old Town area. He is also known to have filmed events: according to the Old Town Enterprise, he "put down in film, both movie and still" the Penobscot Valley Fish & Game Association Field Day at Pickerel Pond on Sept.4, 1932. Initially working "near" the Star Printing Co. on 126 Main Street, Myers' advertises his location as "over Burnham's Drugstore" in the early 1920s. In the 1930s, he emphasizes that he has a downstairs studio "opposite Woolworth's."