Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Irwin, James ???? - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JAMES IRWIN,
a hardy and ambitious young son of Ireland, left his native land for America
about the middle of the eighteenth century.  Chester county, in Pennsylvania,
soon became his adopted home and farming his occupation.  He married a member
of the well and widely known Carson family, of Chester county, and in due
time rose to notice as a thrifty and prosperous tiller of the soil.  In 1793
he moved to what is now Blair county, and settled in Frankstown township. 
There he lived and farmed until his death, leaving the farm to his son Robert
(born in Chester county in 1776, who died on the homestead in 1849.  Robert
was the father of seven daughters and four sons, all of whom grew to be men
and women.

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