Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Maude (Maxwell) Irwin, Johnson County, MO,
Warrensburg Township

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.

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Mrs. Maude (Maxwell) Irwin, who is in charge of the "Oak Hill Sanitar-
ium," located at 519 South Holden street in Warrensburg, was born in
Warrensburg.  She is the daughter of Robert E. and Paralee (Baxter)
Maxwell, the former a native of Missouri and the latter of Kentucky.
Robert E. Maxwell came to Johnson county in the seventies.  He is a
well known and highly respected farmer and stockman now residing near
Fayetteville, Missouri.  Paralee (Baxter) Maxwell is the daughter of
Newton H. and Sallie (Hawkins) Baxter.  Newton H. Baxter was born on
December 13, 1828, in Madison county, Kentucky.  He was united in marr-
iage with Sallie Hawkins, August 5, 1850, and in 1870 they moved from
Kentucky to Missouri, locating in Johnson county in 1871.  Newton H.
Baxter enlisted in the Civil War and served four years.  He was active-
ly and prominently identified with the commercial life of Warrensburg,
Missouri, for forty-five years.  Mrs. Baxter died in June, 1914 and
August 30, 1914, the death of Newton H. Baxter occurred.  Interment for
both was made in the cemetery at Warrensburg.  Newton H. and Sallie
(Hawkins) Baxter were the parents of eight children and at the time of
the death of Mr. Baxter in 1914 there were forty-eight grandchildren
and ten great-grandchildren, descendants of Newton H. and Sallie Baxter.
To Robert E. and Paralee (Baxter) Maxwell were born the following chil-
dren: R. F., who is now in San Antonio, Texas, with the United States
Aviation Corps, and is one of the 200 ordered to France; Mark W., is in
Chicago, Illinois; Alva D., a student in the Warrensburg State Normal
School; and Mrs. Maude M. Irwin, the subject of this review.  Maude
(Maxwell) Irwin attended the public schools of Warrensburg, and in
Warrensburg began training as a nurse.  She completed the nurse's 
training course at Washington Univeristy Hospital in St. Louis, Miss-
ouri.  Mrs. Irwin came to "Oak Hill Sanitarium" one year after the 
institution was founded, serving in the capacity of head nurse.  Two
years later she assumed charge of the hospital.  "Oak Hill Sanitarium"
was established in 1910 by Dr. Harry F. Parker and all the physicians
in the city send patients there.  Accommodations can be made for as
many as ten patients at one time and the hospital is always filled to
its capacity.  It has an excellent patronage and is one of the insti-
tutions of which Warrensburg and Johnson county are proud.  Mrs. Irwin
is owner and manager, but the buiding is the property of the founder,
Doctor Parker.

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