The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 440

WILLIAM MIERAS.

Holland has furnished a substantial and desirable quota of citizens to
Washington and the number includes William Mieras, who is the owner of an
improved farm property on the Moxee. He was born in Holland, September 2, 1868,
a son of Adrian and Dina Mieras, who came to the United States in 1890, settling
at Maurice, Iowa, where both the father and mother passed away. They were
farming people and enjoyed the respect of all with whom they were brought in
contact.

William Mieras spent the days of his boyhood and youth in his native country and
was about twenty years of age when on the 7th of June, 1888, he came to the
United States. Making his way across the country, he took up his abode at
Maurice, Iowa, and in that locality engaged in cultivating a rented farm until
1900. The stories which he heard concerning the opportunities of the northwest
led him to the determination to try his fortune in this section of the country
and he made his way to Yakima county, where he invested in twenty acres of wild
land on the Moxee. He has since improved this place, erected thereon an
attractive home and good barns, and he has five acres planted to apples, pears,
peaches, prunes and cherries. He also makes the raising of full blooded Holstein
cattle an important feature of his business and is conducting a good dairy.
Each branch of his business is proving profitable owing to his capable
management and wise business discernment.

In September, 1898, Mr. Mieras was united in marriage to Mrs. Nellie Boland, a
native of Iowa, and to them have been born two children: Myrtle, the wife of
William Alexander, of Yakima; and Pearl, at home.

In his political views Mr. Mieras is a republican but not an office seeker.
Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which
he has filled all of the chairs, and also with the Modern Woodmen of America. He
belongs to the Yakima County Horticultural Union and is interested in all that
has to do with the development and improvement of fruit growing conditions in
this section of the country. In his work he follows very progressive methods and
the results achieved are most gratifying.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.