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WILLIAM M. IRISH was born July 3d, 1829, and
is a native Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He received a common school
education, leaving school, however, at the age of fourteen. For eight
years he was employed in the grocery business. July, 1853, he received an
appointment as Clerk in the Custom House, at the district of New Bedford,
Massachusetts, where he remained eight years. Leaving this he engaged in
the business of refining petroleum at New Bedford, being one of the first
to embark in this enterprise in the State. In April, 1865, he moved to
McClintockvllle, Pennsylvania, on Oil Creek, and there was engaged in the
industry, and moving to Titusville in December, 1872, has been carrying on
the refining business ever since. Mr. Irish was a member of the School
Board of Titusville, for the years 1874 and 1875, and again in 1877, and,
also, a member of the Common Council for 1875 and 1876. He was married
December 11th, 1851, to Sarah J. Dunham, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. . |
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