Jim, There is another column to this narrative, please let me know if you would like the rest. Hope this is helpful to you. Richelle Extracted from Heritage Quest online History of the Western Reserve By Harriet Taylor Upton Chicago, Lewis Pub. Co., 1910, 2184 pgs. Pp. 1196-97 Charles Manning Irish, secretary and treasurer of the Lorain Banking Company, ex-treasurer of Lorain county and a prominent citizen of the city of Lorain, was born in Pittsfield, Lorain County, Ohio, September 14, 1862. He is a son of Charles and Jane (Ware) Irish, the father a native of New York State and the mother of Vermont. The Irish family is an old one in the state of New York, and the Wares are an old family in New England. Charles Irish removed to Pittsfield just before the Civil war, and began work for Manning Ware, a blacksmith, who later became his father-in-law. After his marriage he made his home in the adjoining township of Camden until the death of his wife, in 1895. For two years Mr. Irish lived at Rock Creek, at Ashtabula County, Ohio, and in 1898 came to the city of Lorain, where he died in 1899.