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Clarence B. Irvine, livery man and native of Dresden, Tenn., was born February 26, 1855, son of Robert N. and Nannie (Winston) Irvine. Clarence was reared and educated in Dresden and in addition attended one year at the Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, which was under the management of Gen. Bushrod Johnson and Gen. E. Kirby Smith. At the age of sixteen he began clerking in his uncle’s (P. B. Winston’s) dry goods store at Brownsville, Tenn., and after one year’s service there began clerking in Clarksdale, Miss. During the centennial year, he with a party of his friends took a pleasure trip to Philadelphia and visited many places of interest in the Northern and Eastern States, going as far as Canada. In 1877 he entered into partnership with his father in the grist and saw-mill business, three miles south of Dresden. The following year he purchased his father’s interest and carried on the business on his own responsibility. In 1883 he sold out and in 1884 established a livery and feed stable. In 1885 he purchased a stable of J. A. and J. P. Gibbs, and since then has had complete control of both stables. November 12, 1884, he married May Pryor, who was born near Paris, Tenn., in June, 1862. She is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Irvine is a Democrat in politics and cast his first presidential vote for Hancock.