Background
Wight, Ira Edward was born on October 21, 1900 in Paschristian, Mississippi, United States. Son of Ira E. and Marie (Ewing) Wight.
Wight, Ira Edward was born on October 21, 1900 in Paschristian, Mississippi, United States. Son of Ira E. and Marie (Ewing) Wight.
Graduate, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1920. Student, Yale, 1924.
With firm Newhard Cook & Company, St. Louis, since 1948, managing partner, 1963-1970. Past director St. Louis Union Trust Company. Board governors New York Stock Exchange, 1965-1968.
Treasurer Missouri Republican Finance Committee, 1938-1940. Chairman Missouri Eisenhower Nomination Finance Company, 1952.
Past member board St. Louis City Art Museum, Barnard Hospital, St. Louis. Served to lieutenant colonel United States Army Air Force, 1942-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Member of St. Louis Country, Log Cabin (past president), Cuivre (past president) (St. Louis).
Cotton Bay (Eleuthra, Bahamas).
Married Elizabeth Bradlee Forrest, Jan 10, 1925. Children– Elizabeth (Mistress Skyler B. Herring), Ira Edward III, John, Nancy. Married Grace W. Niedringhaus, June 25, 1974.