Alexander Ivey From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 891 - 892.

LANCASTER

IVEY & WEBB, merchants, Lancaster; this house was established at this location in February, 1879; they carry a complete stock of dry goods, hats, caps, boot and shoes, clothing, groceries, etc.; stock ranges from $5,000 to $9,000; their annual trade reaches $30,000 and is increasing; this house was established in May, 1866, at British Hollow under the firm name of Wilson & Ivey; in 1868, Mr. Ivey bought his partner's interest and continued the business alone two years, when he took in William E. Webb; in February, 1879, they bought their present store which was opened by Mr. Ivey, Mr. Webb remaining at the old store until it could be closed out; in September, 1880, Mr. Webb joined his partner in Lancaster.
     Alexander Ivey is a native of England, born in County Cornwall March 10, 1837, a son of Joseph and Miriam Endey Ivey, who moved to America in the summer of 1837, and lived in New York City six years, when his father, a miner by trade, was killed by the caving in of a mine, his mother subsequently marrying Josiah T. Tremullen; they moved to West Virginia, afterward to North Carolina, and in 1846, to Grant Co., Wis.; his mother died in 1849. He followed mining until the war broke out when he volunteered as a private in September, 1861, in Co. D, 7th W. V. I., Capt. E. F. Giles; he went out as a private and returned a Sergeant, having lost one leg at the battle of Gettysburg. He was married March 4, 1865, to Miss Anna Eustice, of British Hollow, daughter of George Eustice; they have four sons and a daughter, Miriam P., Joseph E., George Earl, Alexander and W. Leroy; he was elected Town Clerk at Potosi in 1865, and was County Treasurer for Grant Co. four years from 1875 to 1879, and a member of the City Council in 1879.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.