Muhlenberg County KyArchives Biographies.....Irvine, William unknown - 1820
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Author: The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky, J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878

Col. William Irvine was a native of Virginia, and one among the early settlers 
of Kentucky. He built Irvine's Station, in Madison County; took part in most of 
the bloody encounters with the Indians; was engaged in "Estill's Defeat," at 
Little Mountain, in Montgomery County, in 1782, in which he was severely 
wounded; and, although living for thirty-eight years after that fatal 
engagement, the balls were never extracted from his body. On the organization 
of Madison County, he became Clerk of the Quarter Sessions and County Courts; 
was afterwards made Clerk of the Circuit Court, and continued to hold the 
offices until his death; was elected to the Legislature of Virginia from the 
district of Kentucky; was a delegate to the conventions held at Danville, 
looking to the organization of the new State; was a member of the convention of 
1799, which framed the second Constitution of the State; and was, at several 
times, Presidential Elector. He died in 1820, and was one of the most beloved 
and valuable men of his day. 



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