BIO: Irvin, Robert H. s/o Col. Wm. J. Irvin & Eliza (O'Neil), Jefferson Co., KY

IRVIN, Robert H. - KY., then St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller   "mike_m@deq.state.la.us"
7/1/99
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ROBERT HUGHES IRVIN, ST. MARTINVILLE.--Mr. Irvin is a native of Kentucky, born October 
19, 1869.  His father, Col. Wm. J. Irvin, was a native of Ireland, though reared and 
educated in the United States.  He was a gallant soldier in the Civil War, and was a 
colonel in the Sixth Indiana Regiment. He was severely wounded during service, from 
the effects of which he subsequently died, December 3, 1875.  R. H. Irvin's mother, 
Eliza O'Neil, was of Scotch parentage.  She was reared in Louisville, Ky., where she
married the subject's father in 1853.  To them were born three sons and five 
daughters, of whom our subject is the third.  He was reared and educated in Louisiana. 
 He completed his education at St. John's College. After leaving school he took a 
course of civil engineering in Cincinnati, serving as an apprentice for five years.  
On the completion of his apprenticeship he became engineer for the F. O. & I. M. 
Railroad, where he was engaged for the period of one year.  Since that time he has 
been engaged on different roads, until recently, when he became identified with
the timber business of this parish.

Mr. Irvin is an ardent Democrat, and has figured prominently in the local politics of 
the parish.  He was appointed census enumerator for the second ward, in St. Martin 
parish, 1890.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 336.  Edited 
by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.