IRVINE, Thomas

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 163

Thomas IRVINE, superintendent and secretary of the Beef Slough Boom Company, 
Alma [Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was born 02 July 1841 in Toronto, Canada. 
When he was twenty-six years of age [1867?] he went to Muscatine [Muscatine 
County], Iowa, and was engaged in the lumber business with Mr. HERSCHIE 
[Benjamin HERSHEY?]. He [Thomas IRVINE] is also secretary of the Chippewa 
River Improvement Log Driving Company. [In 1852 or 1853 Benjamin HERSHEY 
migrated from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Bloomington Township, 
Muscatine County, Iowa, took up residence on Section 5, and operated a saw 
mill business according to the 1875 directory, which also lists "Hershey & 
Irvine" as manufacturers of lumber, shingles, lath, sash, doors, blinds, 
etc.] 

Thomas IRVINE married Emily A HILLS [a maiden name?], a native of 
Connecticut. They have one child, Horace H. [The family is enumerated in 
the 1880 census of Nelson, Buffalo County, Wisconsin (p 353): Thomas IRVINE, 
age thirty-eight, employed in lumbering, born in Canada, about 1842 from his 
census age, to parents both born in Scotland; his wife, Emily A. IRVINE, age 
thirty-two, born in Connecticut, about 1848, to parents also born there; 
Horace H. IRVINE, son of Thomas, age two, born in Wisconsin to a father born 
in Canada (Thomas) and a mother born in Connecticut. Also in this family is 
a boarder, Florence C. HILLS, single, age twenty-one or thirty-one, born in 
Connecticut (as was Thomas IRVINE's wife), to parents also born in 
Connecticut. Bracketed material added by submitter (who is not researching 
these surnames) to support and clarify information given in the biography and 
to raise questions.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly