Copyright 2003, Esther Doyle Read
New 1 April 2003
READ FAMILY CONNECTIONS
From: Henry C. Bradsby (editor), 1893, History of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania with biographical sketches. S.B. Nelson, Chicago.
Note that Bradsby made at least three mistakes in his short biography. First, Ira's parents had twelve children, not ten. Bradsby appears to have omitted the two little girls that died before 1840: Mary and Delilah Read. Second, Ira was the ninth child, not the sixth. And finally, the maiden name of the mother of Elizabeth Howell Read was Vought not Bought.
"Ira K. Read (deceased) was born in Warren county, N. J., December 14, 1828, a son of Richard and Rebecca (Howell) Read, natives of New Jersey, and of English origin. In his father's family there were ten children, of whom he was the sixth; he began life farming in his native State, which he followed till 1858, when he removed to Dallas, and there continued farming for seven years. He health failing him he removed to Kingston, and engaged in the hardware business there for three years, afterward going to Wilkes-Barre, where he lived six years. He traveled two years for William Bertols, and then engaged with Payne & Co., as agent, in whose employ he remained until his death June 14, 1890; he removed to Miners Mills in 1881. Mr. Read was married December 3, 1851, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Philip and Margaret (Bought) Howell, natives of New Jersey, and of English and German lineage, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Read had three children, viz.: Sarah M., married to Henry Bachman (she and her only child, Arthur R., live with her mother, where she conducts a large dress-making establishment); Anna Rebecca, married to James L. Ribble, a harness-maker in Wilkes-Barre (they have one child, Willard A.); Emma A., married to William Allen, boss plasterer for Charles Shiver, Wilkes-Barre (they have one child, Ira W.). Mr. Read was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which the family is also connected; he was a Republican in his political views."
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