Ira H. Sargent

SARGENT, STROUD, PERSONS, BARTLETT, PURITAN, WOODWARD

Posted By: Debbie Clough Gerischer (email)
Date: 6/8/2005 at 12:35:42

Ira H. Sargent was long an important factor in the agricultural life of this
state, was more than ordinarily successful in his operations, and is now
retired from active business pursuits, spending the evening of life in his
comfortable home in Spencer. He was born in Sydney, Canada, on the 5th of
November, 1845, and is a son of E. H. and Louise Sargent, the former a native of
Vermont and the latter of New York. They were married in Canada and lived in
that country until 1855, when they came to Iowa, locating in Clayton county,
where the father engaged in farming, and there their deaths occurred. They
became the parents of nine children, six of whom are now living.

Ira H. Sargent secured his education in an old log schoolhouse in Clayton
county, Iowa, where he lived until 1864, when, at the age of nineteen years, he
enlisted for service in the Civil war, becoming a member of Company D,
Fourth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served faithfully
until the close of the war, being mustered out at Davenport, Iowa. He then
returned to Clayton county and went to work on a farm. He spent practically
his entire active life in agricultural pursuits up to the time of his
retirement, and is now enjoying the fruits of his years of earnest effort.

Mr. Sargent was married in 1867 to Miss Martha Stroud, who was born and
reared at Decorah, Iowa, and whose death occurred in 1868. In 1873 he married
Miss E. Persons, who also was a native of Iowa, and to this union were born
eleven children, of whom seven are living namely: Cora B., the wife of William
Bartlett; Ernest V., William A. and Lawrence E.; Rosa, the wife of William
Puritan; Irna H.; and Clarence W. The mother passed away in 1918, and in 1921
Mr. Sargent was married to Mrs. Mary Woodward, who is a native of Indiana,
and who has two sons by a former marriage, Frank and George. Mr. Sargent is a
member of Annett Post, No. 124, Grand Army of the Republic, at Spencer, and
of the Modern Woodmen of America. In all the relations of life he has been
true to every trust and his career has been characterized by the attributes
that constitute good citizenship in days of peace, as well as in that momentous
period when he was numbered among the "boys in blue."

-source: IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION; VOLUME III; 1804-1926
-transcribed by Debbie Clough Gerischer, co-coordinator Iowa History Project
iagenweb.org/history/index.htm