Introduction

Biography

Ira was the son of L. H. and Rosa Win­ter­rowd, and hus­band of Ka­ther­ine G. Ger­ma­ny.

He gra­du­ate­d from Da­vid Lips­comb Col­lege (1908), Po­ly­tech­nic Col­lege (1913), the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ok­la­ho­ma (mas­ter’s de­gree, 1921), and re­ceived an hon­or­ary de­gree from Sou­thern Me­tho­dist Uni­ver­si­ty.

He was a song lead­er, Gos­pel preach­er and ed­u­cat­or. He led sing­ing for ma­ny ev­an­gel­ists in Tex­as be­fore he start­ed preach­ing.

He preached in Ok­la­ho­ma, Tex­as, Ar­kan­sas, Ten­nes­see, Ari­zo­na and Ca­li­for­nia. He was pre­si­dent of West­ern Ok­la­ho­ma Chris­tian Col­lege for four years, and taught at David Lips­comb Col­lege and Lock­ney Chris­tian Col­lege.

He was in­vit­ed to teach at Ab­i­lene Chris­tian Col­lege, Hard­ing Col­lege and Freed-Hard­e­man Col­lege, but de­clined all three of­fers to con­tin­ue preach­ing.

He be­longed to Po­ets of Am­er­ica, and was a Greek and La­tin schol­ar.