Cache-Davis County UT Archives Biographies.....Irvine, Thomas 1842 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

THOMAS IRVINE.

    Thomas Irvine, who has followed farming during the greater part of his life
but is now living retired in Logan, enjoying in well earned rest the fruits of
his former toil, was born in Gosport, England, April 10, 1842, a son of John and
Eliza (Potts) Irvine. He came with his parents to Utah in 1853, when a lad of
eleven years, the family home being established at Farmington, where they
resided until the spring of 1860 and then removed to Logan, where the mother
still resides at the notable old age of ninety-four years. The father, however,
passed away in 1897. He was a carpenter by trade but followed agricultural
pursuits during the greater part of his life.

    Thomas Irvine was reared from the age of eleven years in Utah, spending the
period of his youth upon his father's farm, and throughout his entire life he
has devoted his attention to the work of the fields. He had a good tract of
land, which he carefully cultivated and developed and which brought to him a
substantial annual income as the result of good harvests. At the present time,
however, he has put aside business cares and makes his home in Logan.

    On the 1st of January, 1866, Mr. Irvine was married to Miss Catherine
Tarbet, a daughter or Thomas and Eleanor (Kelly) Tarbet. They became parents of
one child, Eleanor, who is now the wife of Ernest Knowles, of Logan. Mrs. Irvine
came to Utah in 1847 from the Isle of Man, making her way to Salt Lake in
company with her parents. She died March 24, 1909. In November, 1911, Mr. Irvine
was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Caroline (Camm) Robertson, a
daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Whittier) Camm, who were natives of England,
the former of Bristol and the latter of London. They came to Utah in 1856, Mrs.
Camm traveled across the plains with a handcart company, walking all the way.
They settled in Parmington and in 1861 removed to Logan, where they resided
until three years prior to their demise, when they removed to San Francisco,
California. Mrs. Irvine has one son, Charles E. Robertson, a resident of Salt
Lake. In community affairs Mr. Irvine has been quite active. He has served as
alderman and did active duty in the city council for several years. He was also
road supervisor for two years. His military experience covers service in 1863 as
captain of a cavalry company of Logan. He obtained a commission from the
governor in 1865. In 1863 he returned to Omaha with William B. Preston as
assistant captain of a wagon train to bring emigrants to Utah. He has always
been a devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has
done what he could to further the cause. He has been a leader in behalf of
irrigation projects, was president of the irrigation company for a number of
years and has also done most effective work in connection with road building in
this section of the state. In a word his aid and support have always been given
on the side of advancement and improvement and his labors have been
far-reaching, beneficial and resultant.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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