People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — IRA W. YEOMAN. [ARTICLE]

IRA W. YEOMAN.

Ira W. Yeoman was born April 28, 1843. in 1* ayette county, Ohio. He removed with his fathers family and settled in Jasper county: Indiana, live miles west of Rensselaer, in the year 1844. He obtained a common school education, and taught school in the winter for several years; was raised on a farm; crossed the plains in 1864 during the Idaho gold excitement, and had many rough experiences during that trip, with lndians and otherwise, the Indians being on the war path all that season. He returned to the states late in that year; was elected Auditor of Jasper county in October, 1867, and served as such for four years; was addmitted to practice law in January, 1872, and has followed that calling ever since. He removed from Rensselaer to Goodland in 1879, and from Goodland to Remington in 1887, where he isat present located. He is at present the clerk and treasurer of the Town of Remington, and is also secretary of Schuyler Lodge, No. 284, I. O. O. F.