Fish, Ira M. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 717, Isabel Township
Ira M. Fish was born in New York in 1826, son of Moses and Debbie Fish; emigrated first to Ohio, then to this county in 1840; in 1867 (he being then 41 years of age) he married Mary I. Vaughn, who was born near Vermont, this county. They have three children. Mr. F. is a farmer, on a nice tract of land, sec. 16. P. O., Duncan's Mills.