Armstrong County PA Archives Biographies.....Irwin, Benjamin 1776 - ????
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Source: Irwin History
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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