Orlando B. Ayres

AYRES, OSBORNE, STONE

Posted By: Greta Thompson (email)
Date: 5/9/2006 at 21:49:37

Attorney. One of the self-made men and prominent attorneys of the Sixth congressional district is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Lake County, Ohio, the twenty-sixth of July 1836. His father, Buenos Ayres, was a native of Massachusetts: his mother, Sarah Osborne, was a native of Connecticut. In infancy the family removed to Hicksville, Defiance County, where they resided until 1850. Then removed to Wisconsin, and in 1851 to Illinois, where he was raised, receiving the benefits of a limited common-school education. In 1861 he commenced reading law in the office of Howe & North at Kewanee, at Ottawa, in December 1863. He opened an office at Kewanee and practiced ten months, after which he came to Iowa, locating in Knoxville, where he has since been numbered among the leading counselors of central Iowa. For a number of years he has been associated with ex-Gov. Wm. M. Stone. The firm of Stone & Ayres is well known throughout the Northwest. He is a Master Mason and an Odd Fellow. He was married July 13, 1864, to Miss Anna M. Stone. They have seven children living: Edward C., Helen A., Augusta, William S., George W., O.B., and Ransom M.

History of Marion County, p. 544