Cabarrus County, NC - John R. Irwin

John R Irwin Bio 
1853 - 1931
 
IRWIN, John Robinson, Croft, N.C., born December 29, 1853, in 
Mechlenburg [sic], N.C. is the son of Batte and Mary Hays (Robinson) 
Irwin, grandson of Gen. Robert Irwin, a Revolutionary soldier, and one 
of the signers of the Mechlenburg [sic] Declaration of Independence; 
also a grandson of John Robinson, D. D., an eminent divine of North 
Carolina, 1800-'43.

John Robinson Irwin was educated in the Poplar Tent High School, 
Cabarrus county, Charlotte Male Academy, and Davidson College, N.C.; 
commenced the study of medicine in 1874, at Croft, N.C., under Dr. J. 
McKnit Henderson, and afterward under Drs. Miles, Chisholm, and Chew, 
of Baltimore; attended two courses of lectures at the University of 
Maryland School of Medicine and was graduated March 1, 1877. He began 
to practice medicine at Croft, N.C., the following summer, and has 
since continued there. Dr. Irwin took a special course in operative 
surgery under Dr. Dawbarn, and in microscopy under Dr. Thatcher, of New 
York; also attended lectures at the New York Polyclinic in 1887 and 
1891.

Dr. Irwin is a member of the North Carolina Medical Association; of the 
Mecklenburg Medical Society; and of North Mecklenburg Medical Society. 
He was surgeon to Mecklenburg Riflemen, 1878-'85; to the Copper Hill 
Gold Mining Company, 1880-'88; to the Henderson Mining plant, 1880-'90; 
examiner for several life insurance companies; and United States 
pension examiner.

Dr. Irwin has performed many of the major surgical operations, 
including: laparotomy, trephining for epilepsy, and operation for 
vesico-vaginal fistula.

Married, February 19, 1879, Miss Margaret Henderson, daughter of his 
first preceptor. Their children are: Herbert, Mary*, Henderson, John, 
Batte, and Julia.

*[Mary Irwin later married William Henry Belk, and through their 
philanthropy Presbyterian Hospital was founded in Charlotte, NC.]

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