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Irad C. Day
Muscatine County
Born in Essex Centre, Vt., in 1805, was of Scotch descent, and was a lawyer by profession. He married Zetta Mead who was born in Greenwich, Conn., and was a lineal descendant of Maj. Gen. Mead, of the Revolutionary War.. In 1836 or 1837 he emigrated with his family to Iowa, locating at Bloomington, now the city of Muscatine, where he became prominent in public affairs, and was afterward chosen Recorder of the county in 1841, being the second to fill that office. In 1846 he was elected a member of the Lower House of the Iowa Legislature, and was re-elected in 1848. He was at one time associated with Judge S. C. Hastings in the practice of law. In 1846, his wife dying, he returned to Vermont, where he later married Miss Frances Morgan, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Morgan. There were four children born of the first marriage : The eldest, a son, died in infancy; Theodore M. married Miss Julia M. Arnold, and resides at Ishpeming, Mich.; Ebenezer P. wedded Miss Jennie M. Chattaway, daughter of Job Chattaway, an early settler of Muscatine; and Josephine, the only daughter, is the wife of Edwin Hill, of Sioux City, Iowa. Of the second marriage there was but one child, Charles M., who died in infancy, his death occurring July 25, 1850. Mr. Day died the following day, and his wife the next day, all dying of cholera within the space of three days.
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