William McNeill Irvine and Julianna Galbraith

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Husband William McNeill Irvine ¹

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            AKA: William Well Irvine 2
           Born: Abt 1778 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
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           Died: 25 Sep 1854 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Gen. William Irvine (1741-1804) 1 3 4 5
         Mother: Anne Callender (      -      ) 1 4 6

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       Marriage: 26 Jul 1808 1

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Wife Julianna Galbraith ¹

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            AKA: Julia Galbraith 2
           Born: Abt 1786 - Cumberland Co, PA 7
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           Died: 13 Jan 1862 - Philadelphia, PA 1
         Buried:  - Laurel Hill Cemetery

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         Father: Maj. Andrew Galbraith (Abt 1750-1806) 8 9 10
         Mother: Barbara Kyle (      -1832) 11

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Children

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1 M Dr. Andrew Galbraith Irvine ¹²

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           Born: 
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           Died: Feb 1867 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 13
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2 M William Callender Irvine ¹²

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           Born: 
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           Died: Aft 1914
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         Spouse: Anna Longsreath (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - William McNeill Irvine

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He was educated at Dickinson Col­lege, where he graduated; subsequently studied law with Judge Thomas Duncan, and was elected to the Cumberland County bar in 1802. He afterward located at Harrisburg, and was admitted to the Dauphin County bar at an adjourned court in March, 1807. He entered the United States army as captain May 3, 1808, in the regiment of light artillery, and was stationed several years at New Orleans. He left the army, by resignation, about 1811 or 1812, and resumed the practice of law at Sunbury. In July, 1813, he was acting adju­tant general of Pennsylvania, which duties he performed until his appointment by the presi­dent of the United States as colonel of the 42d Regiment, United States Infantry, Aug. 4, 1813. At the close of the war he resigned and located at Harrisburg, and was appointed deputy attorney general for the counties of Dauphin and Northumberland; subsequently commissioned by Governor Snyder, Sept. 14, 1815, escheator general of the State, which position he held until the abolishment of that office. From 1819 to 1821 he was adjutant general of Pennsylvania, and had previously, 1818-19, represented the county of Dauphin in the State Legislature, and to him is due the credit for originating, authorizing and directing the erection of the capitol building at Harrisburg. From about the year 1826 to 1850 he resided at Gettysburg. In 1847 Gov­ernor Shunk appointed him law judge for the York and Adams district, on the expiration of Judge Durkee's term, but he resigned shortly after, owing to some difficulties with the mem­bers of the bar and their efforts made to im­peach him. Colonel Irvine was a brilliant pleader but not a lawyer, hence his failure in the judicial station to which he had been ele­vated. He returned to Harrisburg, where he resumed the practice of the law for a while, and subsequently died there. He was an ex­cellent military officer, and a gentleman of fine appearance, tall and commanding, of good conversational powers and a delightful com­panion, and for a period of thirty years was quite prominent and influential in public af­fairs. [HAC 1914, 663]

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 663.

2 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 310.

3 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 78.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 49.

5 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 308.

6 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 171.

7 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 661.

8 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 895.

9 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 385.

10 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 660, 661.

11 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 660.

12 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 664.

13 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 363.