BIO: Ira F. TATE, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 561.
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  IRA F. TATE, a representative citizen and general farmer of Goshen township, 
Clearfield county, Pa., where he owns ninety-six acres of valuable land, was 
born in this township, May 23, 1868, and is a son of Matthew and Jane (Mead) 
Tate.
  Matthew Tate was born on Clover Hill, near Clearfield, and he purchased a part 
of the farm now owned by his son Ira F., prior to his marriage and erected 
several of the buildings which now stand.  He was a farmer all through his years 
of strength and activity, and continued to reside on this farm until his death, 
which occurred in his seventy-ninth year.  He was a man of sterling character, a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, a just neighbor and a broad-minded 
citizen.  For a number of years he was identified with the Goshen Grange.  He 
married Jane Mead, who was born in Elk county, and who died at about seventy-six 
years of age.  They had the following children; Margaret, who is now deceased; 
Elizabeth, who is the wife of William Lutz; Rachel, Allen, Emma, Mary, Samuel J. 
and Ada, all of whom are now deceased; Bertha, who is the wife of George Fulton; 
and Edith and Ira F.
  Ira F. Tate grew to manhood on the home farm and obtained a public school 
education in Goshen township.  His business interests have been almost entirely 
agricultural and he has resided both before and since his marriage on the farm 
on which he was born.  He has all of his land under cultivation, with the 
exception of forty acres still in woodland.  He is a wide awake, progressive 
farmer, a member of the Goshen Grange, and is numbered with the township's 
prosperous agriculturists.
  Mr. Tate married Miss Sarah Morrison, a daughter of George Morrison, a 
resident of Goshen township, and they have one daughter, Elma, who is yet a 
student.  Mr. Tate and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  In 
politics he is a Republican, but takes no active part in public affairs 
although, when occasion arises for him to express his opinion, his fellow 
citizens never fail to understand his attitude.  He believes in good government, 
good schools and good roads.