Allen-VanWert County OhArchives Obituaries.....Longsworth, Ira R. February 3, 1932
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Lima News, February 4, 1932

IRA R. LONGSWORTH, a prominent Lima attorney and former mayor, died February 
3rd following an automobile crash the day before.  After a thorough 
investigation of the accident, police said they believed the collision to have 
been unavoidable because of weather conditions.  WILLIAM B. CARR, of Jackson-
st, driver of the other machine told police that visibility was poor because 
of falling rain and sleet.  LONGSWORTH died at St, Rita’s Hospital from a 
fractured skull, never having regained consciousness.

LONGSWORTH had been a resident of Lima since 1878.  He was born at Van Wert, 
Oct. 2, 1859, and was a son of the late Dr. and Mrs. WILLIAM N. LONGSWORTH.  
He was prepared by a tutor for the junior year at Wooster college when in 1878 
he located at Lima and became manager of his father’s manufacturing plant 
which was engaged in the manufacture of handles for farming implements.  
Although LONGSWORTH deemed it expedient at the time to give up his collegiate 
course, it did not prevent his studying for the bar to which he was admitted 
in 1889.  He then opened an office in Lima.  In 1890, he was elected mayor of 
Lima, serving two years.

Surviving relatives are the widow, ESTHER LONGSWORTH; one son, WALTER I. 
LONGSWORTH, of Indianapolis; two daughters, Mrs. JOHN BREESE and Mrs. MORRIS 
H. SMITH, both of Lima; three brothers, S. N. LONGSWORTH, of Ft. Wayne, REESE 
LONGSWORTH, of Pamplin, Va.; and two sisters, Mrs. PETTY M. EDSON, of Miami, 
Fla., and Mrs. D. W. LONG, of Convoy.  Burial will be in Woodlawn.



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