BIO: Charles H. Irvin, Jefferson County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion, Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens. 
Chicago, Ill.: J. H. Beers, 1898, page 1081.
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CHARLES H. IRVIN is a prominent young business man of Big Run, 
Jefferson Co., Penn.  He is well known as the president of the Citizens 
Bank, which, with William Irvin as president, was organized July 20, 
1890.  He is also the junior partner of the firm of William Irvin & 
Son, whose large tannery is the principal industry of the town.
  Charles H. Irvin was born at Liberty, Tioga Co., Penn., in 1866.  He 
is a son of William Irvin, and a grandson of Benjamin Irvin, a native 
of Pennsylvania, who died at his home in Tioga county in 1892.  Mr. 
Irvin's mother, formerly Miss Mary C. F. Veil, is a daughter of the 
late judge C. F. Veil, a prominent citizen of Tioga county.
  The public schools of Canton, Penn., afforded our subject his first 
educational opportunities.  He afterward entered the college at 
Bethany, W.Va.; but, as his father desired him to engage in business, 
he did not complete his course in that institution.  After a careful 
search for a suitable location for a tannery, Big Run was selected as 
having the greatest advantages, so in 1888 was built the large tannery 
which, under the energetic yet prudent management of William Irvin & 
Son, has been kept ever since in a thriving condition.  
  In 1893 Mr. Charles Irvin was united in marriage with Miss Fannie V. 
Williams, of Indiana, Penn., a daughter of the late Philip A. Williams.  
Two children, William and Helen, brighten their home.   The parents are 
interested in all progressive movements, and are active members of the 
Christian Church at Big Run.  Politically Mr. Irvin is a 
Prohibitionist.  He is also a member of several fraternal societies, 
including the Masonic orders of F. & A. M., the Knight Templar and the 
Mystic Shrine.