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 IIKHIIINOSIIAWS LIUHAUY OV AMEUlfAN HIOCUAPIIY.

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(he aiitliur of tJeology of ('«'iilriil iMini hhi; UiHilog} of Lake Superior; ami CopiurHeauing Uoeks of Lake Superior. Irving, Theodore, educator, clergyman, author, was horn May U, 1809, in New Vtuk M«> was the author of The Fountain City.

Waters; Tiny Conqueror; and The

of 'Living

than

More

F«H)tfalls;

History

of

l>e

Ue died Dec. Soto's Conquest of Florida. 20, 1880. in New York City. Irving, Washington, diplomat, author, was lie 17S;{. in ^ew York City, iKirn April was the most popular of the earlier American writers of the nineteenth cent ury.

He spent the years from 1815 to 1832 abroad; a portion of the time as secretary

David,

Irwin,

lawyer,



He is now state superiiitendas chaplain. Fttr of |>ui)lie instruction for Oregon. lit many yi-ars he was president of the Blue Mountain university of Oregon; au«l was the ^ii|Hrintendent of the United States Indian



iiidn-trial

Irwin,

s<'hool

of Salem.

Harvey Samuel, soldier, lawyer. was born Dec. 10, 1844, in county, Ohio. He was educated in the public schools ami

roiigre»iuaii. lliglilanil

the linited States legation at London and in 1842-40 as minThe ister to Spain. rest of his life was spent at his home in

colleges of his state.



Irving,

mereluint, eoiigressmaii.

Williaxn,

was iHtrn .ug. 10, 1700, in New York City. In 1813-19 he was a representative from New York to the thirteenth, lourteenth ami lifteenth congn'sses. He was a brother rivate s«-luMd in IMiil.Since 1S94 she has l>een dean

iMid later condtu-ted iid«'lphia. ..f

Pa.

nailclilli'

Irwin,

was born

eolleije.

Bernard .luiie

John

24.

1830.

Dowling, in

soldier,

helaml

In

he was a j>rivate sohlier in the New > ork national gu.-ir<"iiirt of Okla-

homa.

in

was one of the found ers and manager of the home and savings fund company of Ixmisville, In Ky. 190103 he was a representative

Keiitm-ky to

(h«

from

fifty-seventh congress as a

republican. Irwin, I.

was

In 1890-JhJ N., ;'«>veinor. territnrial governor of Arizona.

he

In 1 8 13- 1 Jared, tongressman. be was a representative to the thirteentii and

Irwin,

N.Y.


 * <utlu»r.

t

nativo

enlist«'d

lielped to raise a regiment of artillery; ainl became lieutenant, lie

'I'lic

Irviiigton,

He

union army;

the

the Tarrytown on Hudson. He was the author of Di<Hlricli Knickerbocker's History of New York; The Sketcli Hook; Hracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller; Life and Voyages of Columbus; Conquest of Grenatla;



terri

Irwin, G. M., educator, clergyman, college presi<lenl, was born Nov. 11, 1835, in Aanesv ille, Ohio. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyaii university, and received the He has become d«'grees «»f A..M. and D.D. euiinent minister of the methodist epis)iii and during the civil war served u»pal church

of

Companions of Columbus; The Alhanibra; Crayon .Miscellanies; Astoria; Adventures of Captain Bonneville; Life of Oliver <iiildsiiiith MaluMuet and his Suceessont; W olfert's Koosl Life of Vashingt«Hi ; an<l S|iaiiisli Papers, lie died Nov. 28, 1839, in

wai»

lie

jurist,

United States liiilge of one of the lorial «-oiirts sometilue prior to 1884.

from

tourteeiitli

(tiiigresses

He

Pennsylvania.

in

di«'d

Pennsylvania.

Irwin, Jared, soldier, state legislator, governor, w:is Imhii in 1750 in Mecklenburg county. N.C. During the latter part of (he revolutionary war lie was actively employed iigninst the tories and Indians. At (he close of tin- war he was a meml)er of the state legislature; and of the convention which adopt «'d the I'nited States constitution in He was the fourth governor of (Jeor1789. gia in 1790 98 and 1800H9; and president of the stat«' eonstitutitmal convention in He was many years a memlM-r, annate. He die<l March 1. 1818. in Washiiigtcm county, (^a.

was born April Pennsylvania. He was commisin 1847; and became

Irwin, John, naval officer, 1.*),

1S:{J. in

sione^l

midshipman

eoniiiiodore in 1880.

admiral

in

18!ll



He was promoted and

in

1892

rear

was com-

of .Mare Island. Cal. He was relind in 1894. He died .luly 28. 1901. in Washington. D.C. Irwin, John Arthur, physician, surgeon, luitlior. was born .June 17. 1853. in Ireland, lie has been house surgeon of Royal Free hospital of London, and to the Manchester southern hospital for women and children; iiiaiKhint