James Ivey Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 909

JAMES IVEY, farmer; P.O. Platteville; was born April 20,1816, in Camborne, 
Cornwall, England.  His occupation in early life was that of tin dresser.  He 
married, in his and her native parish, Mary Ann Eudey, by whom lie has nine 
children - James A., Honor A. (Mrs. L. D. Culver), Jennie (Mrs. Alexander 
Thomas), Elizabeth (Mrs. John Carhart), Edward M., M. Julia, Benjamin F., Rosina 
and Nellie; the eldest was born in Camborne, and all the others in Grant Co.  
The parents came to America and located at Lancaster in 1845, Mr. Ivey working 
in the Pigeon and Rockville diggings; at the latter point he erected one of the 
very first framed houses, and for a time worked in the furnace of Squire Emery.  
In 1855, he bought a farm on Sec. 2, town of Harrison, having spent the 
preceding year in California.  In 1872, he came to present location in 
Platteville; here he has in all 202 acres.  At one time, while in Harrison, Mr. 
Ivey had nine children of "school age," i. e., from 4 to 20 years.   His eldest 
son served under Gen. Thomas in his Tennessee campaign of 1864 - 65.