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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

THOMAS A. IRELAND.

    Thomas A. Ireland has long been a resident of Colorado and now makes his
home at Windsor, Weld county. He controls important farming interests which have
contributed to the development of the section of the state in which he lives. A
native of West Virginia, he was born in the year 1870 and is a son of James
Franklin and Geniza (Law) Ireland. The father is now living retired but for many
years was identified with farming interests and for a short time with milling.
He removed to Greeley, Colorado, in 1880 and there successfully conducted
business for a considerable period. His wife is a woman of most kind and genial
disposition and has won many friends. Both are very devoted members of the
Methodist church and they are now living in Eaton, Mr. Ireland having retired
from active business life. Their children are four in number, namely: Thomas A.,
of this review; Henry, who resides in Greeley; Inda, the wife of Levi Dickerson,
of Evans, by whom she has two children; and Osee, who is the wife of Charles
Dentry, of Eaton, and has five children.

    Thomas A. Ireland was but ten years of age when the family home was
established in Greeley and there he continued his education, being graduated
from the high school when a youth of seventeen years. When his school days were
over he began working on his father's ranch east of Windsor. This was a three
hundred acre tract of land devoted to general farming and Thomas A. Ireland
continued to reside thereon from 1880 until 1892, when the family removed to
Denver, after which he worked in the mines for four years. During that period he
was at Blackhawk and afterward went to Pueblo, where he spent two years on a
ranch. He then returned to Denver, after which he removed to Severance but for a
time was employed at farm labor north of Windsor. In 1904 he rented one hundred
and twenty acres of land at Severance and has since carried on general
agricultural pursuits. During a part of the time he also engaged in dairying but
has sold his cows. His place is situated on section 26, township 7, range 67,
and he is leading a useful and active life in the further conduct of his farming
interests.

    Mr. Ireland was married in 1910, upon the farm where he now resides, to Miss
Golda Ward, a daughter of Charles and Catharine Ward. Her father is a farmer who
has successfully conducted his business affairs. He represents one of the old
families of West Virginia. To Mr. and Mrs. Ireland have been born two children:
Charles Franklin, six years of age; and Catharine Geniza, four years of age.

    Fraternally Mr. Ireland is connected with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. He is interested in community affairs and
the public good but concentrates the greater part of his time and attention upon
his business interests and by reason of close application and energy has made
steady progress toward the goal of success.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918

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