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Settled by the 1840s · Sections 13 and 24
The tie, exactly: settlers — Howard's roll names "W. and E. M. Irvin" among the very early settlers of the township, without years or Christian names. The 1875 atlas directory gives the family its working depth a generation on: E. M. Irvin stands on Section 13, a stock farmer, a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, settled in the county in 1843; and Warren Irvin stands on Section 24, a general produce farmer, of the same Ohio county, settled 1847.
The course: whether Warren was W.'s son, brother or nephew, no source read first-hand states, and the entry does not guess: it prints the roll's two initials, the directory's two dated farms, and the shared Montgomery County origin as the record gives them. The Irvins are the settler roll's reminder that a directory line forty years on is sometimes all the second record a founding family gets.
Named gap — the Irvin initials: the Christian names behind Howard's "W. and E. M." are settleable from the 1850 census schedule for Harris Township and the Section 13 and 24 deed records.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), ch. V, §3 — W. and E. M. Irvin in the settler roll.
- Illustrated Historical Atlas (1875), Harris patrons' directory, p. 103 — E. M. Irvin (Section 13, settled 1843) and Warren Irvin (Section 24, settled 1847).