Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Mann, Ira A. 1917
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Thursday, November 1, 1917

The remains of Ira Mann arrived here this afternoon on the 4:20 train.  
Interment will be in Highland park tomorrow morning.

The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Friday, November 2, 1917

Burial services for Ira Mann were held this morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. E. E. 
Branch officiating, at Highland Park.  The bearers were Bert Lampkin, J. I. 
Williston, H. F. Voelker, Chas. Lauster, E. T. Merriett, and Mr. Allison of 
St. Johns.

Mr. Mann left Ionia 22 years ago, and made his way from Chicago to Pittsburg, 
walking the distance.  Since that time he has risen to a prominent place in 
Pittsburg business circles, and the man who was obliged to walk to Pittsburg 
was at his death a wealthy contractor, worth over $200,000.

The following item is from a Pittsburg paper regarding his demise:

Ira Mann, aged 46, 17 West Park way, Northside, a plumbing contractor, died in 
the Pittsburg Athletic Association clubhouse last night of heart trouble, 
which became exaggerated by dancing.  He was dancing with his wife at the time 
he became ill.  Dr. W. F. Edmundson, 3509 Fifth avenue, attended him, 15 
minutes later he was dead.  Mr. Mann was born in Ionia, Mich., where he lived 
24 years.  Then he removed to Pittsburg, where he had been since.  He was a 
member of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce, president of the Master Plumber’s 
Association, and a member of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist.  Besides 
his widow, Mrs. Marian H. Place Mann, his mother, Mrs. Melissa Mann, who was 
visiting in Michigan, survive.

The Ionia Daily Sentinel, Saturday, November 3, 1917

Ira Mann, who died suddenly in Pittsburg and was buried Friday in Highland 
Park, Ionia, is well remembered as prominent in the military here in the old 
days.  In 1888 he was a member of old Company G. along with Fred Young, Frank 
Miller, Web Mitchell, Fred Mason, Billy Pettingill, Dan Kelly, John Donovan, 
Henry Horrigan, Harry Jennings, Harry Hamilton, Charley Hoyt, Geo. Canfield, 
Gene Wilcox, John Garrity, Lee Bull and many other well known Ionians.  At 
that time the officers were Capt. John H. Mitchell, First Lieut. Harry E. 
Spencer, Second Lieut. Frank D. Curtis, both Spencer and Curtis succeeding as 
captains of the company later on.


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