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Ira A. Gripp
Union County
Representative from Union county. Born in township 71-28, Union county, Iowa, in 1867. Reared on a farm, attended the rural public schools and Western Normal college at Shenandoah, Iowa. He was married in 1888 to Lucy R. Wilcox and lived on a farm until 1899 when he went into the mercantile business at Thayer, Iowa. He also served as postmaster there for approximately three years. In 1907 he moved to Afton. In 1912 he was elected mayor, following the expiration of which office he was elected county commissioner. In September, 1918, he enlisted in the Y.M.C.A. for overseas duty during the world war. He took five examinations and passed the physical examination, receiving his passports on November 13, 1918. During the war he was chairman of the Four Minute Men, also of the county fuel distribution organization manipulated by the government. He belongs to the First Presbyterian church of Afton, the A.F. & A.M., I.O.O.F., Encampment and Cantonment. He is the father of two children, Jacob B. and Merrill C. He is a republican in politics, and was elected representative from the fourteenth district in 1924.
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