>From the Book: "The Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison" (The genealogy is a partial, the entirety is too lengthy.) IRWIN. THERE is a tradition, which I have not succeeded in verifying, that the Irwin family in the Chart were descended from the John Irwin who received a manor in Ireland in Cromwell's time. Archibald Irwin, the great-great-grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison, appears to have been born in that country. Mrs. Newcomer of Indianapolis, among other information kindly furnished me, tells me that this Archibald settled where his son and grandson of the same name afterwards resided, four miles south of the site of Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pa. This was formerly in Peters Township, Cumberland County, and a list of owners of land in that Township in 1763 mentions an Archibald Irwin with two hundred acres, for which the warrants had already been issued, twenty acres being cleared, and nine sown, and with two horses and two cows. John, James, William, and another John appear in the same list, each having more acres cleared than Archibald. It is probable that this first Archibald, rather than his son, was the Ensign Archibald Irwin of the Rev. John Steel's company of Armstrong's battalion in 1756, during the French and Indian War. The first Archibald had issue, the order of birth being uncertain: JOSEPH IRWIN, m. Violet Porter, JAMES IRWIN, ARCHIBALD IRWIN, m. Jean McDowell, see below, JOHN IRWIN, m. (???) Hage, MARY IRWIN, m. (???) Nesbith, JANE IRWIN, m. John Boggs, LYDIA IRWIN, m. Moses Porter, MARTHA IRWIN, m. George Paull, daughter, m. (???) McConnell, daughter, m. (???) McConnell. ARCHIBALD IRWIN, great-grandfather of President Benjamin Harrison, was probably born in Ireland. During the Revolutionary War, he was Quartermaster of Col. Samuel Culbertson's battalion of Cumberland County militia. This Archibald built a fine stone dwelling-house, and operated a flour-mill and saw-mill, whence the place came to be called "Irwinton Mills." He is sometimes styled "merchant" in the records. He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church at Mercersburg. He died of palsy in the Winter of 1798-9. Issue: JAMES IRWIN, b. Apr. 14, 1758, m. Margaret Smith, see below, MARY IRWIN, b. Feb. 14, 1760, m. M. Van Lear, see p. 57, MARGARET IRWIN, b. Sep. 10, 1761, d. unm., NANCY IRWIN, b. Apr. 27, 1763, m. Wm. Findlay, see p. 58, WILLIAM IRWIN, b. Feb. 5, 1766, m. Mary Smith, see p. 60, ELIZABETH IRWIN, b. Aug. 24, 1767, m. Robert Smith, see p. 62, JANE IRWIN, b. June 22, 1769, resided with her niece at the White House (p. 65), d. s. p. Dec. 28, 1850, m. James Findlay, brother of Governor Findlay, and Colonel in War of 1812, General, Member of Congress from 1825 to 1833, Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1834, d. Cincinnati Dec. 28, 1835, ARCHIBALD IRWIN, b. Feb. 13, 1772, m., 1st, Mary Ramsey, and, 2nd, Sidney Grubb, see p. 64, JOHN IRWIN, b. Mch. 4, 1773, drowned while a child. JAMES IRWIN, b. in York Co., Pa., Apr. 14, 1758, eldest son of Archibald, as above, enlisted in the Revolutionary War first as a private, and from 1778 to 1781 was Assistant Commissary for the Western Army. His father left his brother William and himself a farm in Peters Township. He died in Cincinnati, while on a visit there, Nov. 9, 1843, m. Dec. 5, 1787, his first cousin Margaret, widow of William Smith, and daughter of William Piper by his w. Sarah McDowell (see notes on McDowell family). Issue: ARCHIBALD IRWIN, b. Oct. 9, 1788, d. May 31, 1797, MARY SMITH IRWIN, b. Jany. 6, 1790, m. James McClelland, see below, WILLIAM IRWIN, b. Nov. 24, 1791, m. Ann Hamilton, see p. 55, JOHN IRWIN, b. Feb. 1, 1794, d. unm. Oct. 13, 1838, JAMES IRWIN, b. Mch. 28, 1797, d. March 4, 1798, ARCHIBALD JAMES IRWIN, b. Dec. 15, 1798, d. s. p. St. Louis, Nov. 14, 1867, m. Mary Stuart Hunton, dau. of Charles Hunton, MATTHEW IRWIN, b. Sep. 5, 1800, m. Florence McL. Wilson, see p. 56, JANE F. IRWIN, b. June 30, 1803, d. unm. Apr. 12, 1852. MARY SMITH IRWIN, b. Jany. 6, 1790, daughter of James Irwin, above named, d. June, 1863, m. Jany. 26, 1814, James McClelland of Franklin County, Pa., b. July, 1776, d. Mch., 1863. Issue: John McClelland, d. unm. in Florida, James Irwin McClelland, b. Sep., 1816, d. Huntsville, Ala., May 12, 1855, m. Eliza, d. Dec. 17, 1885, dau. of John Eakin from County Derry, Ireland, Issue: Willie S. McClelland, d. unm. Jany. 31, 1866, Mary Irwin McClelland, of Shelbyville, Tenn., unm., Sidney McClelland, d. s. p., m. her mother's first cousin Matthew S. Van Lear (p. 57), William Archibald McClelland, of St. Louis, m. Louisa Morris Edgar, d. Nov. 13, 1888, dau. of Rev. J. T. Edgar, D.D., Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tenn., Moderator of General Assembly of 1842, Issue: Edgar McClelland, of St. Louis, unm., Mary McClelland, unm., Margaret Irwin McClelland, unm., William Archibald McClelland, d. unm., James Irwin McClelland, unm., Joseph Van Lear McClelland, unm., Thomas Wharton McClelland, unm., Frank Morris McClelland, unm., Joseph Grubb McClelland, d. unm. in Missouri, 1876, Matthew Van Lear McClelland, of Wellington, Mo., m. Sarah Elizabeth Bay, dau. of Samuel Mansfield Bay, Issue: Mansfield Bay McClelland, unm., Mary Irwin McClelland, unm., Virginia McClelland, unm., James McClelland, unm., Sarah Bay McClelland, unm. Margaret Irwin McClelland, of Mercersburg, Pa., unm. WILLIAM IRWIN, b. Nov. 24, 1791, son of James Irwin, p. 54, d. Mch. 5, 1847, m. Ann Hamilton. Issue: James Irwin, d. 1859, m. Margaret Elizabeth, d. 1887, dau. of Henry Kulp by his w. Sarah Beck, Issue: William Irwin, cashier of Nat. Bank of Mifflin Co., Lewistown, Margaret James Irwin, d. unm. 1889, Anne Irwin, of Lewistown, unm., Sarah Beck Irwin, of Lewistown, unm., John Irwin, d. 1890, m. Sarah Harrison, Issue: Anna Mary Irwin, m. Rev. Charles Lippincott, Issue: John Irwin Lippincott, William Irwin, d. Oct., 1892, Sarah Irwin, d. 1882, m. Abram Warder, M.D., d. 1890, Issue: Virginia Warder, d. s. p., m. H. Comerford, Abram Warder, M.D., unm., Mary Warder, m. Marmaduke Dent, Judge of Supreme Court, Issue: Marmaduke Dent, Caroline Dent, John Irwin Warder, m. Ida, dau. of (???) Branen, Judge, Issue: John Irwin Warder, Henry Branen Warder, Ida Jackson Warder, Margaret Irwin, of Clarksburg, W. Va., unm., Mary Irwin, of Clarksburg, unm., Anna Irwin, of Clarksburg, unm., Eliza Irwin, m., 1st, (???) Smith, and, 2nd, (???) Lee, Issue: unknown. MATTHEW IRWIN, b. Sep. 5, 1800, son of James Irwin, p. 54, d. 1872, m. Jany. 15, 1846, Florence McLean Wilson, b. Jany. 6, 1820, dau. of David Wilson by his w. Martha Agnew, and granddau. of David Wilson of Gettysburg by his w. Jane Rowan (see Nevin's Presbyterian Encyclopaedia). Issue: Margaret Irwin, b. Nov. 12, 1846, m. Nov. 16, 1869, Joseph W. Winger, Issue: Matthew Irwin Winger, b. Nov. 15, 1870, Josephine Weaver Winger, b. Sep. 28, 1872, Florence McLean Winger, b. Jany. 7, 1874, James Wilson Winger, b. Feb. 14, 1875, Ralph Oberlin Winger, b. Sep. 16, 1877, Margaret Irwin Winger, b. Sep. 16, 1879, Mary McClelland Irwin, b. Sep. 25, 1848, m. Sep. 10, 1872, Thomas A. Creigh, now of Omaha, son of Rev. Thomas Creigh, D.D., of Mercersburg, by his w. Jane McClelland Grubb (sister of Archibald Irwin's 2nd w. Sidney Grubb), Issue: Thomas Creigh, b. Aug. 8, 1873, Alfred Irwin Creigh, b. Mch. 14, 1884, Elizabeth Wilson Irwin, b. Aug. 2, 1850, unm., Emiline Van Lear Irwin, b. May 23, 1853, m. Oct. 4, 1876, Thomas Harrison McGabey, now of Lincoln, Neb., Issue: Mary Wilson McGahey, b. July 26, 1877, Florence Irwin McGabey, b. June 4, 1880, (infant son) McGahey, b. June 4, 1880, d. June 7, 1880, Aleck McGahey, b. Mch. 11, 1883, d. Aug. 9, 1883, Donald McGahey, b. Oct. 30, 1885, d. Mch., 1887, Jean Elizabeth McGahey, b. 1891, James McClelland Irwin, b. Mch. 2, 1855, of Quincy, Ill., m. Oct. 10, 1883, Carrie, b. Dec. 17, 1858, dau. of Burr H. Polk by his w. Eliza Anne Montgomery, Sincerely, Sharon Lantzy Wygant SURNAMES: Anderson, Como, Hasselor, Heintz, Kingston, Lamer (Leamer, Lehmer), Lantzy (Lenzi), Lydick (Leidig), McAnulty, McCullough, McLane (McLain,McLean, McLene), O'Cain, Patton, Robertson/Robinson, Shankle, Simpson, Sitter, Steen, Stuchell, Thompson (Thomson), White, Wygant.