IRA STETZEL.
Ira Stetzel, who is a well-known farmer of Cameron township. Audubon county, Iowa, where he owns eighty acres of land and is engaged in farming one hundred and sixty acres, was born on January 17, 1885, the son of George and Catherine (Albright) Stetzel. George Stetzel was born in Alsace, France, and his wife, who before her marriage was Catherine Albright, was born in Pennsylvania. The father was a miner in his native land, who came to America in i860, and after arriving in this country located in Johnson county, Iowa, where he purchased a farm and farmed for twenty-six years, or until 1886, when he came to Audubon county.
After locating in Audubon county. George Stetzel purchased a farm in Douglas township, of three hundred and twenty acres, and engaged in general farming until his death, January 17, 1903. He was born, July 25, 1830, and therefore was almost seventy-three years old at the time of his death. George and Catherine (Albright) Stetzel had sixteen children born to them, and all are still living. They are as follow: Elizabeth, Lena, Anna, Henry, Barbara, Cassie, Daniel, Charles, Emma, Martha, G. Wesley, Sarah, Louis, Rosa, Ira, the subject of this sketch, and Ella.
Ira Stetzel, who received his education in the public schools of Audubon county, and who after leaving school farmed with his mother until he was of age, began farming for himself and since has been so engaged. Mr. Stetzel is accustomed to raise about sixty-five acres of corn and forty acres of small grain. He feeds some fifty head of hogs every year, and keeps only thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle on the farm. He has been very successful in mixed farming and is considered one of the enterprising young farmers of Cameron township. Mr. Stetzel has invested approximately five thousand dollars in various kinds of improvements upon his Cameron township farm.
Religiously, Mr. Stetzel belongs to the Evangelical association and is president of the Sunday school. Politically, he is identified with the Republican party.
Although Ira Stetzel has never married, and is still a comparatively young man, he has enjoyed unusual success in farming, largely because he devotes his undivided attention to his life's vocation. Mr. Stetzel is keenly interested in farming and his natural liking for his life's vocation has been no small factor in his success. Mr. Stetzel has many warm friends in Cameron township, where he is well known.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 815-816.
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