Levi Irons

As printed in 1903

LEVI IRONS.

This gentleman has now been identified with the agricultural interests of Keokuk county for forty-eight years, and is to-day the owner of a well improved and valuable farm of one hundred and twenty acres on section 21, Adams township, its neat and thrifty appearance testifying to the careful supervision of the owner. Mr. In ins was born in West Virginia on the lath of January, 184(1, and is the fifth son and seventh child in the family of John [rons, of whom extended mention is made in a precedingsketch. At the age of eight years our subject was brought by his parents to this county and under the parental roof he spent the days of his boyhood and youth, his literary education beingobtained in the schools of Adams township. During his minority he gave his father the benefit of his labor in the operation of the home farm, and at the age of twenty-one began farming on his own account on his father's place. A year later he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, to the improvement and cultivation of which he devoted his energies until 1896.

On the lath of April, 1896, Mr. Irons was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary 1 Williams 1 Anderson, a native of Illinois, born in 1850. and a daughter of W. S. Williams, who came to Keokuk county, Iowa, in 1896, and is now engaged in farming here. Mrs. Irons was reared and educated in her native state and was first married in Illinois to Eliakem Anderson, who was born in Xew Jersey and was a farmer Inoccupation. In 1886 they came to Iowa and located on a farm in Adams township, Keokuk county, which Mr. Anderson operated throughout the remainder of his life. Being in ill health he entered a hospital in Chicago, but he never recovered and died there in 1892.

After his marriage Mr. Irons located upon his present farm in Adams township, where he owns one hundred and twenty acres of rich and arable land, which is under a high state of cultivation. He is a progressive and enterprising farmer and is meeting with good success in his chosen occupation. He has always devoted considerable attention to stock raising and has found that branch of his business quite profitable. In politics he is independent, supporting the men whom he believes best qualified for office, regardless of party lines. He merits and receives the respect and esteem of all who know him and is one of the valued members of the community in which he lives.

As printed in A genealogical and biographical history of Keokuk County, Iowa .. (1903). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.