The 1880 United States census showed Ira Paden (age 21, born in Minnesota, works in railroad roundhouse) living in Austin, Minnesota.
The 1900 United States census showed Ira E. Padden (age 41, born in Minnesota in September 1858, machinist) married to Mira (age 40, born in Illinois in September 1859) and living in Austin, Minnesota. Children Edith (age 12, born in Minnesota in March 1888) and Elsie (age 10, born in May in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.
The 1905 Minnesota census showed Ira E. Padden (age 46, born in Minnesota, railway boiler inspector) married to Mira (age 45, born in Illinois) and living in Austin, Minnesota. Children Edith M. (age 17, born in Minnesota) and A. Elsie (age 15, born in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.
The 1910 United States census showed Ira E. Padden (age 52, born in Minnesota, mechanic) married to Mira (age 50, born in Illinois) and living in Austin, Minnesota. Children Edith M. (age 22, born in Minnesota) and A. Elsie (age 19, born in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.
Ira Padden, general superintendent of the plant of the Minnesota Farmers’ Brick and Tile Company, Austin, is a native of this county, born on the southeast quarter of section 6, Windom township, son of Ira and Mary (Wilson) Padden, the pioneers. He received his education in the country schools and in the Austin high school, after which he entered the employ of the C., M. & St. P. After learning the machinists’ trade, he was gradually promoted, and during the last six years of his twenty years’ employment with that company acted as foreman of the shops at Austin. Subsequent to this he served eight years as state boiler inspector for the First district, and still later entered into the land and real estate business. November 26, 1909, when the Minnesota Farmers’ Brick and Tile Company was organized, he became its general superintendent, and his efficient and faithful service, as well as his mechanical knowledge, has played an important part in the favor with which the output of that company has met. Mr. Padden is a Republican in politics, has done valuable service for the city of Austin as alderman from the third ward a capacity in which he has, with the exception of two years, served since twenty-one years of age, and has also been sergeant at arms at the state capitol for the last two sessions of the legislature. He helped to organize Co. G, Second Regiment, M. N. G., and held rank from private to first lieutenant, also acting as captain two years. Mr. Padden is a member of the A. O. U. W., the M. W. A., the I. O. R. M., the K. of P., the B. P. O. E. and the Owls. He was married November 25, 1887, to Mira Streeter, and this union has resulted in three children, of whom two are living: Edith, a graduate of the Austin high school and of the University of Minnesota, is teaching in the high school at Lake City, Minn.; Elsie is a student at the Hamline University. (The History of Mower County Minnesota, Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., Chicago, 1911, Page 683)
The 1920 United States census showed Ira Padden (age 59, born in Minnesota, investment company manager) living in Austin, Minnesota.
The 1930 United States census showed Ira Padden (age 71, born in Minnesota) living in Austin, Minnesota.
Ira Padden died September 7, 1949, in Hennepin County, Minnesota.