BIO: Thaddeus IRELAND, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 512 & 513.
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  THADDEUS IRELAND, whose well improved farm of 100 acres is situated seven and 
three-fourth miles north of Clearfield, Pa., has been a continuous resident of 
this county since 1885 and is a representative and respected citizen of Goshen 
township.  He was born in Washington county, Me., June 22, 1855, and is a son of 
Abraham and Mary (Henderson) Ireland.
  Abraham Ireland and wife were both natives of Maine and he still resides in 
Washington county, now aged eighty-eight years, but nevertheless hale, hearty 
and useful.  He is still interested to some degree in farming and lumbering.  He 
married Mary Henderson, who died in 1864, and they had the following children 
born to them:  Edward; Amanda, who is now deceased (was the wife of Samuel 
Rankin); Emma, who is the wife of Alexander Rankin, of North Bend, Clinton 
county, Pa.; Oran, who resides in Montana; Elizabeth, who died at the age of 
eight years; Nancy, who succumbed to diphtheria at the same age; and Thaddeus, 
of Clearfield county.  The mother of the above family was a member of the 
Baptist church while the father has always attended the Methodist Episcopal 
body.
  Thaddeus Ireland knows a great deal about lumbering, having worked in the 
woods of his native state after his school days were over, and later, after 
coming to Clearfield county in 1879, in the lumber regions in this section.  For 
one year after marriage he lived in Clinton county, Pa., and then bought his 
present farm, formerly the property of D. Cyphers.  He found about fifteen acres 
cleared and a barn on the place, and all the subsequent clearing Mr. Ireland has 
done for himself.  He has erected other substantial buildings and has a very 
comfortable home as well as valuable land.  It may be more valuable than he 
knows, as no tests have yet been made for coal.
  On July 4, 1883, Mr. Ireland was married to Miss Jennie Sankey, a daughter of 
John and Laura Sankey, well known residents of Goshen township.  The family of 
Thaddeus and Jennie Ireland are as follows:  Julia, wife of Ernest Wilson (they 
have four children - Amanda, Irwin, Margaret and Wayne); Clayton, who died at 
the age of three months; Bessie, wife of Charles Young (they have two children - 
Doris and Erma); Gray, Ada, John, Ora, Elon, Leda, Mitchell, Heichhold, A. T. 
Theodore, N. L. Neal, Loris, and Omas.  Mr. Ireland and family attend the 
Methodist Episcopal church.  In politics he is a Republican and on the ticket of 
that party has frequently been elected to important township offices, as 
supervisor and judge of elections.  He belongs to the Goshen Grange and takes an 
interest in agricultural progress.