Edwards, Rev. Jonathan.  "An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of
Washington."  San Francisco: W. H. Lever, 1900.  p. 521.
 
ISAAC ERWIN

     a pioneer of 1887, is a native of Shelby. Ohio, born September 13, 1847.
When he was a boy the family moved to Mosely county, Illinois, where Mr. Erwin
became a blacksmith and machinist and worked at these trades for seventeen
years. He then moved to Fall River, Kansas. and was engaged in farming and stock
raising there until 1887. While he was living in Illinois, however, the call for
volunteers came and he enlisted in Company K, Fifth-fourth Illinois Infantry,
which served first under General Banks, and later under General Steele. He was
in a skirmish with a band of Copperheads in Charleston, Illinois, in which four
men were killed. He also was present in the engagements at Ashley Station,
Arkansas, Clarendon, on White river, and in numerous other battles and
skirmishes. He was discharged from the service May 17, 1865, and has since drawn
a pension on account of disability. Mr. Erwin was a brave and loyal soldier and
deserves a share of the credit always due to men who risk their lives for the
sake of their country. Since 1887 he has been a citizen of this county, residing
first in Spokane for a year, and afterwards on a homestead of one hundred and
sixty acres six miles east of Chattaroy. He has a pleasant home, and a nice
little orchard of about three hundred trees. He was married in January, 1869, to
Mary E. Wooton, a native of Indiana. They have six children, namely: Hecter F.,
Viretta, Homer, Thomas E., Josie A. and Phebe.


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