BIO: George G. IRWIN, Cumberland County, PA
    
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    >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
    Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 155-156
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    GEORGE G. IRWIN, M.D. South Middleton township, Cumberland county, has been
  particularly fortunate in the high class of professional men who have made
  their homes there. Not the least among these is Dr. George G. Irwin, whose
  conscientious devotion to his calling, and whose natural ability and high
  attainments, have won him a conspicuous place in the front rank of successful
  physicians and surgeons.
    Dr. Irwin comes of good Scotch-Irish stock, and his paternal
  great-grandfather passed his entire life in Ireland. Alexander Irwin, the
  Doctor's grandfather, was an early settler of Chester county, Pa., where he
  was engaged in trade.
    
    156  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
    George Irwin, son of Alexander, was born in Chester county, and on reaching
  manhood followed in his father's footsteps as a merchant, also carrying on
  farming, the latter occupation occupying his entire time during the latter
  years of his life. His energy and foresight enabled him to find success in
  whatever he undertook. His death occurred Jan. 25, 1901, when he was
  seventy-five years of age. His wife, Harriet Gable, was born in Lancaster
  Co., Pa., and is still living now (1904) aged seventy-one years. Five
  children were born to George and Harriet (Gable) Irwin, namely: J. Alexander,
  who is deceased; Clarence C., deceased; George G.; Margaret G.; and Mary M.,
  deceased. In religious belief the family all united with the Presbyterian
  Church. George Irwin, the father, was a Republican in politics, and held a
  number of local offices, serving for some years as a justice of the peace. He
  was a man of sterling worth, and by his fidelity to duty and his high ideals
  of right living won the lasting esteem of his fellowmen.
    George G. Irwin was born in Oxford, Chester county, Nov. 27, 1860, and his
  early years were passed in his native town. The common schools gave him the
  rudiments of his education, which was furthered in Oxford Seminary and the
  broad school of experience, and by wide reading. After his graduation from
  Oxford Seminary, he returned to work upon his father's farm, but his
  ambitions led him to seek a professional career, and in 1889 he began to read
  medicine with Dr. J. W. Houston, an eminent practitioner of Lancaster county,
  with whom he continued until he matriculated in the College of Physicians and
  Surgeons, at Baltimore, Md. He was graduated from that school in 1892, with
  the degree of M.D., and at once returned to Oxford, there to begin an active
  practice among his old neighbors. A few months later substantial inducements
  led him to move to Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland county, where he has since
  made his home, meeting with unquestioned success in his work. He is a close
  student of the new discoveries in medical science, and possesses a remarkable
  faculty of discernment in selecting the wheat from the chaff. His ability in
  diagnosis has brought him favorably before his brother physicians who have
  frequently availed themselves of his services in consultation.
    Professionally, Dr. Irwin belongs to the Cumberland County and Pennsylvania
  State Medical Societies, and is always interested in the deliberations of
  those bodies. In his political faith he is a Republican, and he has given
  good service as a member of the board of health.
    In 1895 Dr. Irwin was united in marriage with Miss Emma Black, daughter of
  Anthony and Sarah Black, both of whom died in Mrs. Irwin's childhood. The
  Doctor and his wife are delightfully hospitable, and have many warm friends
  throughout the county.