William M. Irish

biography

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.

Directory of Crawford County, PA, 1879-80, page 265