Career
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. He was also the Los Angeles agent for the David West. Alexander and Phineas Banning stagecoach company, and in 1860 he opened Los Angeles"s fourth drugstore. 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.
His fiancée, M. Hereford, was mortally injured.
