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Elizabeth McNeal, on January 1, 1854. Henry Irwin, Jr. was a native of County Antrim, Ireland who had immigrated first to Canada, as a small child with his parents then came to Franklin Grove in 1836, when he was 12 years old, and where he married Ann Elizabeth.
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November 3, 1880. She was the daughter of William Egan and his wife, the former Bridget Sanders. The marriage produced four children, one of which died as a young child. He was a lifelong Republican party stalwart, who began holding political offices when he was a
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Clinton Irwin attended public schools in Maple Park, where he completed what his biography calls a "common school education." He followed this by attending
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Doyle, Thomas C., "The
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