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IRVIN E. GREENWOOD. One of Carlisle’s rising young business men is Irvin E. Greenwood, manager of the Lindner Shoe Company, and treasurer of the Carlisle Nursery Company. He was born at New Kingstown, Cumberland county, and paternally and maternally is descended from most worthy ancestry.

About the year 1842, when New Kingstown was yet a village of only a dozen houses, there settled in it a man named William Greenwood. He was a wagonmaker and for a number of years carried on a large shop, employing both journeymen and apprentices for help. After him came his brother James, who was a carpenter, and his brother Samuel, who came to learn wagonmaking with his brother William. At this stage it is difficult to ascertain much of the former history of these three brothers, but it is probable that they came from Carlisle or its vicinity.

While serving his apprentice at the wagonmaking trade at New Kingstown, Samuel Greenwood became acquainted with Miss Agnes Irvin and married her. Agnes Irvin was a daughter of Armstrong and Eve (Hoch) Irvin and was born on March 23, 1821, on a farm about a mile and a half due north of New Kingstown, in Silver Spring township. After his marriage Samuel Greenwood settled at Stoughstown, Newton township, and there carried on wagonmaking on his own account. In 1854 he again took up his abode at New Kingstown and engaged at wagonmaking. After living some years in New Kingstown he bought a property about a mile and a half south from the town, where he worked at his trade and did some farming. Here he continued to live until the end of his career. He died on Nov. 30, 1884; his wife, Agnes Irvin, died on Feb. 26, 1886, and their remains and the remains of four of their children who died young are buried in a graveyard situated on the turnpike a short distance west of New Kingstown.

Samuel and Agnes (Irvin) Greenwood had children as follows: Alfred, Orlando H., John, William H., Charles, and Mary, who is married to Joseph Beistline. Besides these there were the four already mentioned as having died young. Alfred Greenwood grew to manhood at New Kingstown and learned the blacksmith trade, at which useful occupation he is still engaged in the place of his birth. He married Miss Maggie McClintock, who was born near Fayetteville, Franklin county, and reared in the family of the late Michael Kost, near New Kingstown.

Alfred and Maggie ( McClintock) Greenwood had issue as follows: May A., Irvin E., Flora B., Bessie F., and Daniel H., who died when eight years old. Mrs. Maggie McClintock (Greenwood) died Oct. 30, 1903, and is buried in the graveyard along the turnpike west of New Kingstown.

Irvin E. Greenwood, the second child, and the subject of this biographical sketch, attended the public schools of his native town until he was fourteen years old when he became a clerk in the store of Charles Hetrick, in New Kingstown, a position he held for five years. At the end of that time he secured a position with the J. W. Ringrose Manufacturing Company, at Holmesburg, Philadelphia, where he continued three years, rising to the rank of foreman of one of the departments. In 1894 he came into the service of the Lindner Shoe Company as clerk and has steadily continued with this flourishing enterprise ever since. He applies himself diligently, has become acquainted with all the details of the business and done much to promote its success. In 1900 he was elected treasurer of the company, and in 1904 was appointed its manager. He is also treasurer of the Carlisle Nursery Company and is justly ranked with Carlisle’s successful and popular young business men.

Fraternally Mr. Greenwood is a member of St. John’s Lodge, No. 260, F. & A. M., of Carlisle; Samuel C. Perkins Chapter, No. 209, Mechanicsburg; St. John’s Commandery, No. 8, Carlisle; Harrisburg Consistory, A. A. S. R., Harrisburg, and Zembo Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Harrisburg. He is also a member of Silver Spring Lodge, No. 598. I. O. O. F., and of Carlisle Lodge, No. 56, K. of P.

On Feb 12, 1898, Irvin E. Greenwood was married to Miss Orie M. Bishop, by Rev. H. R. Fleck, pastor of the Lutheran Church, at New Kingstown. Orie M. Bishop is a daughter of William and Amanda (Slonaker) Bishop, of New Kingstown. They have two children, Thelma J., born Dec. 3, 1898, and Rosalie F., born Dec. 7, 1903, and live in a beautiful home on North College street, Carlisle, where they dispense a generous hospitality to all their many friends.