Biography of Ira D. Bronson



Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo.

W. Martin, Secretary. 

Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912.



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IRA D. BRONSON was born in Warren, Herkimer county, New York, October 24, 1835. At the

age of nineteen he emigrated to Illinois, where he taught school, first in Knox county, and later

near Antioch, Lake county. At Antioch he married, on June 11, 1867, Miss Annie Webb, a native

of that place. Mr. Bronson came to Kansas in 1857, locating in Paris, where he engaged in the

lumber business. In May, 1861, he enlisted in company F, Second Kansas volunteers, and was

mustered out of the service in the fall of 1865 as captain of company I, Second Arkansas

volunteer infantry, having also served as captain of company A, Fourth Arkansas volunteer

infantry. in March, 1866, he moved to Mound City, remaining there until August 1, 1870, when

he removed to Fort Scott. Mr. Bronson was interested in numerous town sites in southern

Kansas, the town of Bronson, in Bourbon county, having been named for him.