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 IRVINE

IRVING

diT. He was suiwrintemlent oi military stores at Pliihulelphia. 1801-04, by appointment of Presi- dent JetTiTson, ami was president of the state branch of the Society of the Cincinnati. His brother, Capt. Andrew, was an officer of the Revolutionary army througiiout the war and died in Carlisle, Pa., May 4, 1789; another brother, Dr. Matthew, was surgeon in General Lee's divi- sion of the Revolutionary army. He was mar- ried to Anne Callendar, and their son, Callan- der, was a captain of artillery and engineers, U.S.A., 1798-1801, and succeeded his father as superintendent of military stores at Philadelphia; another .«on. Col. William N., served in the U.S. army. 180:3-15, and another son, Capt. Armstrong, was graduated at the U.S. Military academy in 1811; served through the war of 1812; was cap- tain in the regiment of his brother, Col. William N., was aide to General Ripley in 1816, and died at Fort Warren. Mass.. Jan. 15, 1817. See The Wu.shi)i(jtoii- Irvine Letters by C. W. Butterfield (18S-J). General Irvine died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 29. 1804.

IRVINE, William, pioneer, was born in Vir- ginia about 1750. With his brother, Capt. Chris- topher, he went to Kentucky, where, in the fall of 1781, they built Irvine's Station, near Rich- mond. Ky.. before Madison county was organ- ized, and participated in most of the encounters with the Indians of that region, including the en- gageinent at Little Mountain under Captain Es- till in 1782. William was badly wounded in this encounter and Christopher was subsequently killed by the Indians in northern Ohio in 1786. William was clerk of the quarter session and county courts of Madison county on its organiza- tion in 1786, and subsequently clerk of the quarter session and circuit court of Washington county. He was a representative in the Virginia house of burges.ses subsequently to 1777; a trustee of Boonesborough in 1787; a delegate to the several conventions held at Danville for the purpose of introducing Kentucky into the Union; a mem- ber of the convention which framed the second constitution of Kentucky in 1799; a Jeflferson presidential elector in 1805; an elector at large on the Madison ticket in 1812, and an elector on the Monroe ticket in 1816. He died at Irvine's Station, Ky.. in 1m20.

IRVING, John Beaufain, painter, was born in Ch:irle>ton, S.<'., Nov. iJO. 182.5. He was educated at the College of Charleston and was in charge of the family estate till 1817, when he removed to New York city to .stu<ly painting, but returned to Charleston the same year greatly discf)uraged at his progress. He was a pupil of Leutze at DfLsseldorf, 1851-.'i5. and returned to Charleston in IS."!.*), where he occa.sionally painted portraits. He lost his fortune by the civil war, and in 1865

removed to New York city, where ho opened a studio and painted genre pictures with notable success. He was less successful in treating his- torical subjects. In 1869 he was elected an asso- ciate National Academician and in 1872 a full Academician. Among his more noteworthy works are: Sir Tliomas More Taking Leave of His Daughter on the Way to his Execution C1854); TJie Sjyinster (ISGl); The Disclosure (ISGl); Wi7ie- Tasters (1869); Portrait of Mrs. August Belmont (1871); The End of the Game (1872); .1 Muske- teer of the Seventeenth Century (1874); The Book- worm (1874); Cardinal Wolsey and his Friends (1875); Off the Track (ISli)); A Banquet at Hamp- ton Court in the Sixteenth Century (1877); Con- noisseurs (1877); The Last Rally (1877); Car- dinal Richelieu and Jtdie in the Garden of the Tuileries (1877). He died in New Y'ork city, April 20, 1877.

IRVINE, John Duer, geologist, was born in Madison. Wis., Aug. 18, 1874; son of Prof. Roland Duer and Abbey Louise (McCuUoli) Irving. He was graduated at Columbia college in 1896; was a fellow in geology there, 1897-99, and a member of the U.S. geological survey, 1899-1900. He is the author of: Stratigraphical Relations of Broum's Park Beds of Utah (189G); Contact Phenomena of Palisades Diabase (1898); A Con- tribution to the Geology of the JSorthern Black Hills (1899).

IRVING, John Treat, jurist, was born in New Y^'ork city, March 26, 1778; son of William and Sarah (Sanders) Irving, and a descendant of William de Irwyn, of Drum Castle, Aberdeen, who was armor-bearer to Robert Bruce at the battle of Bannockburn. His father was a native of Kirkwall, the capital of the Orkney Islands, and was a navigator, trading between New Y'ork and Falmouth, England. His mother, Sarah Sanders, was a native of Falmouth and a woman of rare beauty and charm of character. They settled in New Y^ork city in 1763. John Treat Irving was graduated at Columbia college in 1798; was admitted to the bar; was a member of the state assembly, 1816-17 and 1819-20. and a judge of the court of common pleas, serving as first judge, 1821-38. In his earlier years he con- tributed political articles to the Chronicle, edited by his brother Washington. He was a trustee of Columbia college, 1818-28, and a vestryman of Trinity church. New Y'ork. He was married, April 28, 1806, to Abby Spicer, daughter of Gabriel and Sarah (Wall) Furman. His son, John Treat Irving, and his grandson, Cortlandt Irving, were members of the New York bar in 1900. Up died in New York city. March 15, 1838.

IRVING, John Treat, author, was born in New York city. Dec. 2, 1812; son of John Treat and Abby Spicer (Furman) Irving, and grandson of