. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . ut of themilitia, and was colonel of the Seventieth Regi-ment of the Second Brigade and Eighth Divi-sion of that body. He married, in 1820, Sarah,daughter of Jonathan Lillie, of Damascus town-ship, and has had a family of twelve children,of whom eight are now living, namely : Calista;Leila, wife of Charles Drake ; Volney; Martha;Weston D. ; Octavia, widow of Edward Fen-wick, of Matamoras; Abigail, wife of WalterIllrnan, ; and Milton L. Skinner. with her family, returned to Cochecton, and al-though but nine years old, Charles drov
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . ut of themilitia, and was colonel of the Seventieth Regi-ment of the Second Brigade and Eighth Divi-sion of that body. He married, in 1820, Sarah,daughter of Jonathan Lillie, of Damascus town-ship, and has had a family of twelve children,of whom eight are now living, namely : Calista;Leila, wife of Charles Drake ; Volney; Martha;Weston D. ; Octavia, widow of Edward Fen-wick, of Matamoras; Abigail, wife of WalterIllrnan, ; and Milton L. Skinner. with her family, returned to Cochecton, and al-though but nine years old, Charles drove an ox-team back, his only companion being a sickbrother, dependent on him for care. The restof the family, having horses, arrived three daysearlier. Ten years later he entered the store of HiramBennett & Co., at Damascus, Pa., as a clerkunder Walter S. Vail, one of the junior part-ners. The next year he made a more perma-nent engagement with W. S. Vail and D. John, they having bought Mr. Bennetts in-terest. In November, 1844, he associated him-. OL*- JL WAYNE COUNTY. 477 self in business with the Hon. X. W. Vail,now of Middletown, N. Y., the new firm buy-ing out Vail & St. John, and continuing busi-ness until 1855, when W. W. Tyler succeededMr. Vail in the firm. The following year disposed of his interest to J. S. Vail. Nearly five years later, in 1860, he formed apartnership with T. & P. OReilly, their storebeing on the same ground where he first enteredthe mercantile business nearly forty years next year he finally retired from the busi-ness and engaged in the management of variousimportant interests with which he was con-nected. In these, as in all his business affairs,he was eminently successful, adding to his al-ready acquired property by judicious invest-ments after he had retired from active life. Mr. Irvine was a man of quick and clearperceptions, liberal and progressive views, strictintegrity, admirable business methods and en-terprise, of
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