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James William Irwin

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James William Irwin

Birth
Clearfield, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
14 Dec 1887 (aged 80)
Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Clearfield, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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James was raised on the old homestead in Lawrence Twp. and after his marriage, James located at the old farm. For a number of years, he and his brother Henry resided there together being engaged in clearing the timber from the original tract. Finally having cleared sufficient land for 2 large farms, they divided the property equally. Henry remaining on the older portion where he and his sons put up new buildings. James settled upon the newly cleared tract which he improved for a homestead. In 1871, he sold the homestead to his son Fred B. Irwin and moved to Clearfield where he purchased a home dying there in 1887. During his later years he was extensively engaged in lumbering in Girard township, Clearfield county, he and Thomas Fulton having purchased a large tract of timber land on the Susquehanna River where they erected a sawmill. After Mr. Fulton's death in 1854, Mr. Irwin bought his interest and continued the business alone manufacturing lumber and square timber the latter being rafted down the river to the markets of Harrisburg and Marietta.
source: Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania ..., Volume 1

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Above information per Marguerite (#48040627) on October 8, 2013
James was raised on the old homestead in Lawrence Twp. and after his marriage, James located at the old farm. For a number of years, he and his brother Henry resided there together being engaged in clearing the timber from the original tract. Finally having cleared sufficient land for 2 large farms, they divided the property equally. Henry remaining on the older portion where he and his sons put up new buildings. James settled upon the newly cleared tract which he improved for a homestead. In 1871, he sold the homestead to his son Fred B. Irwin and moved to Clearfield where he purchased a home dying there in 1887. During his later years he was extensively engaged in lumbering in Girard township, Clearfield county, he and Thomas Fulton having purchased a large tract of timber land on the Susquehanna River where they erected a sawmill. After Mr. Fulton's death in 1854, Mr. Irwin bought his interest and continued the business alone manufacturing lumber and square timber the latter being rafted down the river to the markets of Harrisburg and Marietta.
source: Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania ..., Volume 1

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Above information per Marguerite (#48040627) on October 8, 2013

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  • Added: Oct 6, 2013
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118247244/james_william-irwin: accessed ), memorial page for James William Irwin (9 Mar 1807–14 Dec 1887), Find a Grave Memorial ID 118247244, citing Hillcrest Cemetery, Clearfield, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by PA (contributor 47274097).