Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1902 — Dr. Elmer Irwin’s Wife Dead. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Elmer Irwin’s Wife Dead.

J. F. Irwin and his aister, Mrs. J. C. Porter, went to Chicago to attend the funeral there last Wednesday of Mrs. Emms Irwin wife of their nephew, Dr. Elmer Irwin. She died last Friday, Deo. 27, at Pasedena, Cal., of oonsnmption. Her maiden name was Emma Jenka, and she was a nurse in a Chicago hospital when her husband was a medical student there. They were married only last July, and went to Montana where Dr. Irwin was located. They went to Pasedena only about a week before her death. Dr. Irwin, the bereaved husband, is well remembered here, having lived here and attended oar high sohool for a number of years, some 8 or 10 years ago. Two dollars a month bays a Singer aewing maohine. At the Singer o ffice. dtf