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Franklin Cadwallader Irish
1877 - 1951
He served in the American Ambulance Field Service as a driver during WWI near Verdun. He was involved in real estate interests, first as co-owner of the firm Avey and Irish and later bought sole interest in the firm. After the war he managed his family’s real estate interests. He died in 1951 and is buried in Homewood Cemetery.
Members of the Irish family arrived in Western Pennsylvania in 1785, when Nathaniel Irish was granted 50 acres of donation land near New Castle. Due to the dangers of settliNathng that area, the Irish family lived off that property but took residence near present-day Verona, Pa. Nathaniel Irish moved to Pittsburgh in 1789 to a property off St. Clair Street near Penn Avenue. That property remained in the family for two hundred years. Successive generations of the family were prominent in business and served in the Civil War and WWI.
