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IRA CREECH, notary public, real estate and collecting agent, Joplin, was born in Harlan county, Ky., Nov. 4, 1839. His father, Henry Creech, was also a native of the Blue-grass State, born in 1818. He was a son of Jonathan Creech, a native of Ireland. The latter participated in the War of 1812. The mother of our subject, Mahala (Field) Creech, was born in Tennessee, about the year 1818. During his infancy the subject moved with his parents to Lee county, Va., locating on a farm, where young Creeds attended the common schools and engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1853 the family moved to Dade county, Mo., where the father died in 1854. The subject learned the carpenter trade and also engaged in farming. On July 4, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, First Missouri Battalion of Scouts, and was at the battle of Wilson’s Creek; he then went to Rolla, where his command was disbanded. He then returned to Dade county, but finding crops, etc., destroyed, proceeded to Kansas and enlisted in Company D, Twelfth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Adams commanding, and served until the close of the war, and was mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., June 30, 1866, and discharged at Lawrence, Kansas, shortly afterward. He then engaged in teaching for several years, and came to Joplin in 1872, and engaged in smelting mineral for about two years. He engaged in his present business in 1875, and has since continued, and was made a notary public in December, 1876. Mr. Creech was first married in Cedar county, Mo., to Miss Elizabeth A. Ray, of that county. Mrs. C. died in the fall of 1862. Our subject was again married in Lawrence, Kansas, March 9,1866, to Miss Lou M. Turner. Mrs. C. is a member of the class of 1883 of Joplin College of Physicians and Surgeons. They have one child, Charles, born Jan. 17, 1867, in Carthage. Mr. C. is a member of the orders of I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W., and G. A. R. He was elected justice of the peace for Galena township in 1876. Office on Main Street, between Second and Third. He has desirable lots and town property for sale and rent; makes collections, etc.