Brief Life History of Ira
When Ira Harper was born on 30 March 1856, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, his father, James Madison Harper, was 24 and his mother, Lydia Ann Lamb, was 22. He married Amanda Virginia Clementine Wade Head on 15 August 1877, in Stephenville, Erath, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Clifton, Graham, Arizona, United States for about 4 years and Graham, Arizona, United States in 1910. He died on 20 April 1918, in Sawmill, Apache, Arizona, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Sawmill, Apache, Arizona, United States.
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- Ira Harper, "New Mexico Territorial Census, 1885"
- Ira Harper, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Ira Harper, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"
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1858
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Hamilton, Texas, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English (Staffordshire), Scottish, Irish (Antrim and Down), and Dutch: occupational name for a player on the harp, from Middle English harper(e) ‘harper’ (Old English hearpere) and Middle Dutch harper, herper. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Portrait and Biographicaly Record of Arizona -- IRA HARPER
Ira Harper, of the firm Harper and Depee Dealers in lumber and general merchandise, is a prominent business man of Clifton and has been identified with the development of these southwestern territorie …
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