IVINS, W. S.

IVINS, WILCOX, JONES

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:54

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

IVINS, W. S., proprietor of the Keokuk Omnibus and City Livery- Stable, office, Third St., between Main and Johnson ; born in Burlington Co., N. J., in 1824; came to Keokuk in 1841; kept '''The Boat Store" from 1846 until 1848 ; in 1850, he became proprietor of the "Ivins House " and engaged in the hotel business until 1853, when he went to California; re turned to Keokuk in 1855, and engaged in the real estate business until 1857 ; in 1858, he started his present business and has since continued it with good success. In 1849-, he married Miss V. W. Wilcox ; she was born in Warsaw, Ill., in 1832; they have three children— Eva N. (now Mrs. R. Jones), Elizabeth, William S. Mrs. Ivins is a member of the Episcopal Church ; Liberal.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879