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87. "Third Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of 

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 Printer. Octavo, 309 pages, 21 figures, 12 plates. 



CHARLES McILVAINE. 



Charles Mcllvaine, son of Hon. Abraham R. Mcllvaine 

 and Anna (Mulvaney) Mcllvaine, was born on Springton 

 Farm, part of the old Penii Manor of Springton, on the 

 31st of May, 1S40. 



The Mcllvaine family were of Scotch-Irish extraction. 

 In 1529 they were the Lairds of Gremit, and a powerful 

 Sept of the House of Kennedy — the Earls of Casilis. 

 James Mcllvaine, from whom the subject of this sketch is 

 descended, emigrated from County Antrim, Ireland, and 

 settled near Chester, in the year 1740. 



Abraham R. Mcllvaine, father of Charles, was a patri- 

 otic and public-spirited citizen. He represented Chester 

 County in the State Legislature in 1836 ; was a member of 

 the Electoral College of Pennsylvania in 1840, casting his 

 vote for General Harrison for President, and represented the 

 Seventh Congressional District in Congress from 1842 to 

 1846, inclusive. During his whole active life he was a pro- 

 nounced Unionist, and at the breaking out of the late war 

 encouraged his son Charles, then division engineer on the 

 East Brandywine & Waynesburg Railroad, to aid in the 

 suppression of the Rebellion, his own delicate health and 

 age alone preventing him from going to the field himself 



Charles Mcllvaine, though only just of age, raised a 

 company of volunteers, of which he was elected captain, 



