Crawford-Edgar County IL Archives Biographies.....King, Ira 1822 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  IRA KING, retired farmer, P. O. Robinson, is a native of the State of New
York, where he was born January 22, 1822. When quite young, his parents came to
Illinois and settled in Edgar County. In 1829, with his mother-his father having
died-he came to Crawford County, where he has since lived. They settled about
seven miles west of Robinson. Mr. King now owns a farm of 120 acres, and another
of 80 acres, all under a good state of cultivation. He also owns 400 acres in
Oblong Township, about half of which is in cultivation, and 3,000 acres of
uncultivated lands in the Embarras River bottoms. In 1881, he built a handsome
frame residence in Robinson, at a probable cost of $10,000. He was married, in
June, 1846, to Miss Caroline Beckwith, of this county. They have three children
living, viz.: Eliza, Mary and Horace F., the later a graduate of Wabash College,
at Crawfordsville, Ind. Sophia E. and Annis are dead.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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