Biography - Ira Winters

IRA WINTERS, who is a native of Nevada, and is numbered among the representative ranchers of Washoe County, has been active in the promotion of agricultural interests in his locality, was born January 19, 1877. His father, John D., one of the pioneers of this State, arrived in Sacramento overland in August, 1849. He came by the way of the Oregon trail and later located in Carson in the year 1857. He did freighting and became interested in mining, and at one time traded a yoke of oxen for a sixth interest in the Ophir Mine at Virginia, which afterward proved valuable and was worth a quarter of a million dollars. He lost his fortune later in the mines of Virginia and Aurora, and died in 1901. The mother died in 1887. Ira received his education in the public schools of Carson City, after which he became interested in farming, and in 1906 he and his aunt, Mrs. N. E. Nevers, who died March 19, 1913, purchased about one thousand acres near Washoe Lake, and since then Mr. Winters has given his attention to general farming and dairying. Mr. Winters was united in marriage to Mary Kearney, January 3, 1904. Their three children are Mary Elizabeth, Ina May and John D. In politics Mr. Winters is a Democrat.

Transcribed 2020 May 06 by Norma Hass from The History of Nevada, published in 1913, volume 2, pages 1273-1274.

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