Jean McDowell Irwin Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Ancestor

 

Patty Meyer Brohard Found This!

Peter Clifford Was An Ancestral Uncle. Friends/Family believed JUSTICE was served when his killer was hung.

 

Tragedy at Rendville – Peter Clifford Shot – Mob Hangs Richard Hickey

Posted by JRW on March 22, 2012

David Irwin Buried At Antietam National Cemetery

 

David Irwin Dies At Antietam

 

Rendville, Ohio

 With a population of about 1,000 people at its height during the boom years of the 1880s, Rendville was home to black miners who lived and worked alongside white immigrant miners who were newly arrived from central and eastern Europe.

The town was named for William P. Rend, a Chicago industrialist who operated a coal mine here and paid black and white miners the same wages. The town was filled with saloons and gambling, and stores and churches. It hosted a big Emancipation Day celebration every year to commemorate President Abraham Lincoln’s ending of slavery in the South.

Adam Clayton Powell Sr. was a hard-living miner here in the 19th century before he surrendered his vices and was “saved” at a religious revival at the local First Baptist Church. He later became pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood and a civil-rights leader.

Richard L. Davis, another black coal miner, was an organized-labor leader in the Knights of Labor and then the United Mine Workers of America in the late 1800s. He worked to make sure that black miners had the same opportunities as white miners. He is buried in Rendville Cemetery.

In 1879, the Ohio Central Coal Company established Rendville, Ohio. Traditionally, white miners had refused to allow companies to hire African American miners. William P. Rend, the founder of Rendville and owner of a mine in this community, hired large numbers of African Americans as well as Europeans. White miners in surrounding communities, especially in Corning, Ohio, feared that African American miners would drive down wages. 

To prevent the continued use of African American miners, in 1880 white miners in Corning and neighboring communities descended upon Rendville, apparently hoping to drive the African Americans from the community. In an attempt to mask their true intentions, the white miners smuggled firearms into the community in wagons, with the guns concealed under hay. According to newspaper accounts no significant violence occurred, although Ohio Governor Charles Foster did dispatch the Ohio National Guard to disperse the mob. In a small skirmish, three or four protesters were injured. This event became known as “the Corning War.” 

Tensions between the white and African American miners continued. In 1888, a mob of Corning whites prepared to descend on Rendville, following the murder of a white Corning man presumably by an African American man from Rendville. Rendville’s mayor, Isaiah Tuppins, the first African American man to serve as a mayor of an Ohio community, convinced Corning law enforcement officials to disperse the mob and to protect the accused man.

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Robert Irvine

 Elizabeth Harris kindly sends the data below, which I think is from Lucinda Boyd's work. 

ROBERT IRVINE born about 1660 in Ireland, son of David and Sophie (Gault) Irvine. Robert married his cousin, Margaret Wylie of Glenoe, County Antrim, Ireland. Robert Irvine and sons operated mills, a bleaching plant and a smith shop in Glenoe. His son, James, was a blacksmith in America. They had ten children and one family story says that seven of the eight sons sailed for America in 1729. In 1729 the mills and bleaching plant were disposed of and seven of the eight brothers sailed across the sea, risking their all in frail vessels for many weeks. They put to sea on May 9, 1729, from Londonderry, Ireland in the Ship "George and Ann" landing in Philadelphia. The old home in Glenoe passed from Irvine ownership in 1731, when Francis Lee bought it.   Notes for Margaret Wylie:
The oldest of Robert Irvine's sons was a contemporary of his brother in law Ephraim McDowell. They were in the Siege of Londonderry 1689. I have seen Ephraim was 17, and born abt 1672. Therefore the older of Robert's sons was born a 1672-74. I have redated these births to accord with this. All the dates are estimates for these children.  
       
Children of Robert Irvine and Margaret Wylie are: 
    i.   Margaret Irvine, born Abt. 1672.     ii.   Mary Irvine, born Abt. 1674.     iii.   Thomas Irvine, born Abt. 1676.     iv.   Alexander Irvine, born Abt. 1678.     v.   George Irvine, born Abt. 1680.   224 vi.   William Irvine, born Abt. 1680 in probably Ireland; married Annie Craig Abt. 1699 in Larne, Ulster, Ireland.     vii.   David Irvine, born Abt. 1684.     viii.   James Irvine, born Abt. 1686.     ix.   Robert Irvine, born Abt. 1688.     x.   Samuel Irvine, born Abt. 1690.