Ivins, E. P.

IVINS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/1/2008 at 16:20:44

E. P. Ivins

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.186, Neola Twp.)
E. P. Ivins, editor of the Neola 'Tribune,' Neola, was born in Clinton County, Ind., July 25, 1849. His father, Dr. Daniel Ivins, was born in New Jersey in 1815, and was a physician of forty years' practice. He graduated at Cincinnati Medical College about 1840; practiced in the State of Indiana till coming to Iowa, in 1856; remained four years in Bedford, Taylor County, then in Monroe County till the breaking-out of the rebellion, when he went into the army and served about three years as Assistant Surgeon. He then returned to iowa, where he practiced till his death, which occurred in October, 1880. Mr. Ivins' mother, Elizabeth P. (Davis) Ivins, was born near Dayton, Ohio, March 4, 1828, and died in February, 1881. She was the mother of three boys and four girls; one of the former and two of the latter are dead. Mr. Ivins attended the common schools of Albia, Monroe County, Iowa, and there served an apprenticeship at printing. In 1862, he entered the army as drummer; remained about three years, and then, returning home, resumed his trade, which he followed until July 1, 1881, when he located in Neola. At that time, he purchased and became editor of the paper known as the Neola 'Tribume.' It was first edited in 1878, by a man named Zenas Brown, and subsequently passed into the hands of McWilliams and Chapman, whom our subject bought out. The Neola 'Tribune,' as edited by Mr. Ivins, is a wide-awake weekly journal, devoted to general news matters of local interest. Mr. Ivins was married, at Dallas, Iowa, December 25, 1873, to Maggie Logan, born near Pittsburgh, Penn., March 5, 1852, daughter of Hugh and Mary A. (Hughes) Logan; he, born in Ireland about 1804, was a farmer, and served in the army three years; she, born in Pennsylvania about 1813, died in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Ivins have one child, Hattie L. Mr. Ivins is a Republican.