Armstrong County PA Archives Biographies.....IRWIN, Benjamin 1776 - June 11, 1850
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  Author: Ruth E. Good Hollenbaugh
  
  IRWIN HISTORY
       Benjamin Irwin was my great-great-grandfather and was 
  born in 1776.  He was married three times.  My great-great-grandmother was his 
  second wife.  Her maiden name was Margaret Marshall.  She was a daughter of 
  Wm. Marshall who lived on the farm where Glade Run Church was founded.
       One son Wm. Irwin was the father of Curl and Joseph Irwin who lived on a 
  farm near Belknap.  The third son was Benjamin Irwin who lived on a farm up 
  along the railroad tracks.  The farm joined the George Black farm.
       Catherine Irwin was my great-great-grandmother and was born in 1818.  She 
  was born on the farm just mentioned.  She married Robert Wilson in 1842.  She 
  had six sons:  Donaldson Doddridge (sic), Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Newton, 
  James Shields, Thomas Milton and George Washington Mechlin.
       Catherine's father gave them the Alonza Good farm and Uncle Abe Good got 
  the farm joining the W.R. Good farm.  They somehow made a trade and Grandpa 
  got this farm and was latter (sic) the Frank Wilson and Snyder farm.
       It is said that Benjamin Irwin bought his children each a farm when they 
  married, and paid approximately two dollars per acre for the ground.
       Hannah Irwin was a daughter who married Abe Good and later lived at the 
  present Shrock farm.  They were the parents of Adolphus Good, a missionary in 
  Africa.  Alonza Good was also a son and was the father of Tom Good, Frank 
  Good, and Jim Good. 
       Joseph Irwin lived back of the Black farm.  They called him Captain 
  Irwin, as he had been in the Civil War.  He had three daughters.  One of them 
  was Josephine, wife of George Barnard.  When their children got ready for 
  college, the parents sold their farm and moved to Grove City and stayed there 
  until the girls completed their college work.  Then they came to Dayton and 
  built the house now occupied by Frank Kordes.
       They put in a bathroom and installed a furnace in this house which is 
  said to be among the first ones in Dayton.
       Margaret Jane Irwin married Archie Marshall in 1826.  They were the 
  parents of Leroy Marshall, who lived on the farm joining the Alonza Good 
  farm.  Ada Marshall Prugh was a daughter of the Leroy Marshall's.
       Robert Wilson died in 1892, aged 81 years.  He felt he was a very old 
  man.  He could hardly get around with a cane.  His wife had died in 1873 at 
  the age of fifty-five years.
  
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