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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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B. F. IRWIN, retired farmer, was born in Sangamon county, in 1822. His father, S. L. Irwin, was born in North Carolina, 1779. He was married in North Carolina, 1802, to Miss R. Hudson, who was born in Virginia in 1785. In 1819, they emigrated to Tennessee, resided there one year, then came to Sangamon county, April, 1820, and located where Pleasant Plains now stands; lived there two months, then moved to a small farm where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1845; his wife followed him in 1867; they left a family of fifteen children. Mr. B. F. Irwin was married to Miss Jane Combs. They had one child. Mrs. Irwin died in 1848. He married for his second wife, Miss Martha Huber, who was born April 1, 1834. The fruits of this marriage were two children, one son and one daughter, the latter now deceased. Mr. Irwin has a fine farm of four hundred acres in this township, and one of four hundred and eighty acres in Nebraska. The farm in this county is valued at sixty dollars an acre. In politics, he is a Republican.

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