North Star Township Biography
IRA BOVEE
Source: BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF GRATIOT COUNTY, MICHIGAN published by J. B. BEERS & CO., Chicago, 1906
IRA BOVEE, a prominent farmer of North Star township, Gratiot county, whose well-improved farm compares favorably with any in the locality, was born June 19, 1854, in Schoharie county, New York, son of Cornelius and Eva (Livingston) Bovee, natives of New York. Mr. Bovee's father died in Schoharie county, at the age of thirty-four years, and his mother was married to Elied Bovee. Mrs. Bovee died in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of sixty-five years.
Ira Bovee was the youngest member of a family of four children, and was reared in Schoharie county, New York, being eleven years old at the time he came to Michigan with his mother and stepfather. They settled in Northville, Wayne county, where Ira learned the brick mason's trade, at which he was employed for a time. He then located in Williamston, Ingham county, engaging in the grocery business for about two years, at the end of which period he removed to Edmore, Montcalm county, where he was in the grocery business for six months. He then located in Ithaca, remaining there as a contractor and builder until 1893, when he located in North Star township, where he has since been engaged in farming, also doing some masonry work. He owns sixty-four acres of good land in North Star township.
Mr. Bovee takes a great deal of interest in township and county affairs, and is known to be a man of strict integrity and reliability, no one in North Star township standing higher in public esteem. He is a member of Ithaca Lodge, No. 64, Knights of Pythias.
Created on ... October 09, 2001