• Born: 1803, Wallingford CT
• Marriage (1): Lucy Cordelia Frary about 1830 in Meriden CT
• Died: 26 Dec 1845, Meriden CT

  General notes:

Pewtersmith

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed: Ashbel Griswold, about 1813, in Meriden CT.

• Partnership: Ashbel Griswold, in 1830-1842, in Meriden CT. As GRISWOLD & COUCH

• Master: William Worcester Lyman, in 1836-1841, in Meriden CT.

• General: 1842, in Meriden CT. Representative to the Connecticut State Legislature

• Partnership: James Ashbel Frary, after 1842, in Meriden CT. As COUCH & FRARY.

• Partnership: William Worcester Lyman, in 1844-1845, in Meriden CT. As LYMAN & COUCH, britannia spoon manufacturers.

• Partnership: William Worcester Lyman and George Bull, in 1845, in Meriden CT. As BULL, LYMAN & COUCH. After Couch's death, the firm continued using the old name until 1849.

Ira married Lucy Cordelia Frary, daughter of James Frary and Anne Taylor, about 1830 in Meriden CT. (Lucy Cordelia Frary was born in 1806 in Meriden CT and died on 30 Apr 1883.)