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Ira Lee Acheson

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Ira Lee Acheson

Birth
Iowa, USA
Death
18 Jan 1928 (aged 58)
Bingham, Sheridan County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Alliance, Box Butte County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 8, Sec. 2, Lot 5, Space 5
Memorial ID
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ACHESON BROTHERS
Among the best known businessmen of Alliance are the Acheson Brothers, I. L., W. S. and A. R. The firm bearing the name Acheson Brothers now is not the same as the firm that went under that name a few years ago. W.S. Acheson came to this part of Nebraska from Allerton, Iowa, in 1886, and took a homestead claim three miles north-west of where Alliance now stands, and has resided here continuously since that time. I. L and A. R. Acheson came from the same place in Iowa the next year. They both returned to Iowa, but came back to Nebraska to make their home here.

I. L was engaged in the grocery business for a number of years. Selling that he engaged in the hardware business with W. S. under the firm name of Acheson Brothers, afterwards purchasing his brother’s interest he has since run the store under his own name, I. L. Acheson. It is no flattery to say that as an upright business man he deserves the fine trade he has in hardware, farming implements and vehicles.

About two years ago W. S. and A. R. Acheson formed a partnership for the transaction of real estate and insurance business in which they have been getting a fair share, with fine prospects of a good increase in business this coming season. Persons doing business with them can depend upon getting a “square deal” every time.

Source: The Alliance Herald (Alliance, Nebraska), Thursday, 06 March 1913, page 8.
ACHESON BROTHERS
Among the best known businessmen of Alliance are the Acheson Brothers, I. L., W. S. and A. R. The firm bearing the name Acheson Brothers now is not the same as the firm that went under that name a few years ago. W.S. Acheson came to this part of Nebraska from Allerton, Iowa, in 1886, and took a homestead claim three miles north-west of where Alliance now stands, and has resided here continuously since that time. I. L and A. R. Acheson came from the same place in Iowa the next year. They both returned to Iowa, but came back to Nebraska to make their home here.

I. L was engaged in the grocery business for a number of years. Selling that he engaged in the hardware business with W. S. under the firm name of Acheson Brothers, afterwards purchasing his brother’s interest he has since run the store under his own name, I. L. Acheson. It is no flattery to say that as an upright business man he deserves the fine trade he has in hardware, farming implements and vehicles.

About two years ago W. S. and A. R. Acheson formed a partnership for the transaction of real estate and insurance business in which they have been getting a fair share, with fine prospects of a good increase in business this coming season. Persons doing business with them can depend upon getting a “square deal” every time.

Source: The Alliance Herald (Alliance, Nebraska), Thursday, 06 March 1913, page 8.


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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43642886/ira_lee-acheson: accessed ), memorial page for Ira Lee Acheson (4 Jun 1869–18 Jan 1928), Find a Grave Memorial ID 43642886, citing Alliance Cemetery, Alliance, Box Butte County, Nebraska, USA; Maintained by DawnN (contributor 47160551).