BIO: Robert Hays Irvine, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LIII.

                            NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

519 	NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

  ROBERT HAYS IRVINE, farmer, P. O. Newville, is a great-grandson of 
William Irwin (as it was then spelled), one of the first settlers on 
the "Walnut Bottom," whose widow, Eleanor, in 1745, left the farm, now 
owned by our subject, to her son Samuel, who was a major in the famous 
"Light Horse Troop" during the Revolutionary war, and was for years, 
before and after, a justice of the peace in Middlesex Township.  He 
married Mary, daughter of Samuel Miller, a wealthy settler in that 
township, whose will, on file in Carlisle, is a curiosity.  One of 
their sons, also named Samuel, was the grandfather of Robert Hays.  He 
married Isabella Kilgore, of Green Spring, in Newton Township, and 
lived in the house now occupied by his grandson adjoining the Irvine 
Mill, on the Big Spring.  Here the father of our subject, as well as 
he, was born, and here the father of Samuel first lived for many years, 
but afterward removed to Newville, where he engaged in mercantile 
business for thirteen years.  His wife was Maggie, daughter of R. M. 
Hays, then of Oakville, now of Newville.  They had two children, of 
whom one died an infant; the other is Robert Hays, who was born 
February 11, 1862.  The elder Irvine returned to the farm in 1876, and 
here his wife and younger son died.  Later he was married to Annie, 
daughter of John Wagner, of Newville, and a year after removed to that 
place, where he again engaged in business.  In the fall of 1884 he sold 
out and went to Sioux City, Iowa, where he now resides.  In 1880 Mr. 
Irvine took the farm, which he has since carried on.  He is a member of 
Big Spring Presbyterian Church, an upright and thrifty man and a good 
citizen.