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Jay Ira Nichols
Muscatine County
Senator from the Twentieth Senatorial District, composed of the counties of Muscatine and Louisa, was born near West Liberty, Muscatine county, Iowa, May 13, 1855. His parents, Ira Nichols, a native of New York, and Elizabeth W. Nichols, a native of Ohio, came to Iowa in the spring of 1854 and settled in the well-known South Prairie District, near West Liberty. His mother is still living in West Liberty. His education was that of the country school, supplemented by a short course in a business college. He has been a farmer since early manhood. Has held a number of positions of honor and trust, among them being president of the Union District Agricultural Society, president of the Iowa Condensed Milk Company, member and chairman of the Muscatine County Board of Supervisors, and member of the House of Representatives from the Forty-second District in the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-first General Assemblies. Was elected Senator in 1906. A Republican in politics.
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