CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: I. H. IRWIN (1881)

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.868 [I surnames]
CHICAGO
BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS
186 DEARBORN STREET
1881

AUBURN TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO

I. H. IRWIN. blacksmith. Tiro: was born in Chester Co., Penn., Jan. 18, 1835. He is a son of Israel and Hannah
(Millard) Irwin. The father and mother are natives of Pennsylvania, the former being born in 1802. and the latter in
1800. They were married in Chester Co., Penn., April 1, 1823, and came to Auburn Township in 1835. The father
died July 19, 1837, and the mother July 22, 1877. Mr. Irwin was a man beloved and esteemed by all who knew him.
He was a local minister in the U. E. Church. and lived a life full of usefulness. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin were the parents
of the following family: Thomas M., Margaret A., Joseph, Sarah J., Caroline M., Elizabeth A., I. H. and Jared A.
Thomas, Margaret, Joseph and Jared are dead. Sarah is the wife of George Byers: Caroline is the widow of James
Ovens, and Elizabeth is the wife of Samuel H. Hilborn, whose biography accompanies this work. All live in Auburn
Township, Crawford Co., Ohio. The subject of this biography lived with his mother until she married Isaac Hilborn,
and then he lived with his step-father for about ten years. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith when about l3, with
whom he lived four years, serving out his apprenticeship. Since that time he has been continually engaged in that
business in Mechanicsburg, excepting one year, that being a year he farmed. He was married Dec. 20, 1854, to
Margaret L., daughter of Abner and Harriet (Thoman) Crouse, and by her has one daughter, Almeda, born July
14, 1856. Almeda is the wife of John D. Michener, and by him has one daughter Annie L. born Oct. 6, 1875. Mr.
Irwin is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Lutheran Church. He has held various township offices and
is well known and highly respected throughout Auburn Township.