William Irvin, Jr. and Jane Patton

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Husband William Irvin, Jr. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1 Dec 1801 - Penn's Valley, Centre Co, PA 4
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           Died: 29 Dec 1869 4
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         Father: William Irvin, Sr. (      -Abt 1830/1831) 4
         Mother: Margaret Johnston (      -      ) 4

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       Marriage: 2 Mar 1830 4

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Wife Jane Patton ^{2 5}

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            AKA: Jane Sutton 6
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           Died: 4 Sep 1881 4
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Children

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1 F Susanna Patton Irvin ²

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           Born: 31 Aug 1835 2
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         Spouse: Henry Bucher Swoope (1831-1874) 7
           Marr: 6 Sep 1855 2

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2 M Col. Edward Anderson Irvin ⁶

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            AKA: Col. Edward Irwin 8
           Born: 13 Jan 1838 6
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         Spouse: Emma A. Graham (      -      ) 6 8
           Marr: 30 Oct 1862 6

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General Notes: Husband - William Irvin, Jr.

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About the year 1820 William Irvin, Jr., as he was then known, came to the mouth of Anderson's Creek, in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, at a point now occupied by the borough of Curwensville. Here his father had purchased a tract of about three hundred and thirty acres of land, built a dam across the West Branch, and erected a mill. In the year 1828 William, Jr., and John Irvin purchased this mill property from their father and managed it for two years, until, in 1830, John bought William's interest. The latter then engaged in the mercantile business, conducting a large general store, and also became an extensive lumberman. His investments were remunerative, and he acquired large means. There being no banking-houses in the vicinity during a greater part of his business life, Mr. Irvin invested his surplus funds in real estate, which brought him handsome returns in later years, and left an exceedingly valuable estate to be divided among his heirs at his decease.
For the construction of the Tyrone and Clearfield railroad he contributed liberally, and was made one of the directors, although he did not live to see the road completed; but his estate contributed twenty thousand dollars after his death in accordance with his wish. Out of his own funds he caused to be built a brick school-house at Curwensville, and, for a time, paid the expenses of its maintenance.
He was an earnest worker in the political field, on the Republican side, though never for his own advancement; he never sought an office, and accepted but one, that of United States marshal of the Western District, but his time and means were always ready for the good of the party, and when the government was threatened with internecine foes, none was more active and liberal in its support than he.
In 1860 Mr. Irvin was succeeded in the mercantile business by his son, Edwin A. Irvin, but, in the year following, the latter entered the army, and during his absence the father managed the store. Aside from this, Mr. Irvin may be said to have retired from active business in the year 1860, and thereafter, and until the time of his death, his time was given to the care and management of his estate.

He and his wife had fifteen children, four of whom died in infancy.

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Patton

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from Curwensville, Clearfield Co, PA

"Of the life and Christian example of Jane Patton Irvin, enough might be written for a complete chapter. She was a woman of fine intelligence and great force of character. To her husband and children she gave her unbounded love, her greatest earthly affection, every attention, every thought, every care. In time of trial she proved a comfort, and in time of triumph a joy; her force of character, her patience, her resignation, and her very presence were, in themselves, noble examples; her worthy charities, dispensed here and there among the poor and the afflicted, quietly and without display; her loyal devotion to country and the Union arms that led her thrice within the lines, administering help to the sick and wounded, and comfort and consolation to the dying comrades, can never be forgotten; and finally her patient resignation to her physical suffering during the last sixteen years of her life, were traits of her character that endeared her to a large circle of friends and relatives; and in her death the whole community lost a dear friend."

1 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 684.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 142.

3 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 684, 1054.

4 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 685.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1054.

6 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 674.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 135.

8 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 110.