He was a fireman and engineer for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. This is why they came to live in Galion.
Sources
"Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD8H-QKB : 8 December 2014), Orville W. Ireland and Jessie Florence Kellogg, 18 Feb 1908; citing Morrow, Ohio, reference 2:3PNM4QG; FHL microfilm 388,785.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Orville by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Orville: