Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — Death of Dr. O. H. Irwin. [ARTICLE]

Death of Dr. O. H. Irwin.

J me. F, Irwin <f our-ci y reCei ed by teleg aph Wednesday tne sad and unexpected ne»s of the death of his youneer bro her Dr, Oliver H Irwin. It orcuned at E k City .Oilt.homa, "here he hadbte i Icca'ed fir ab ut two years. No p.rticu nrs of his death have been received, but it is tup posed to have ©courtd suidenly from hta-t disetsj with which he was kntwn to have long bet n affected. Hrl was mostly raised in Carpen‘tr t iwnsbip tti< county but praoti ed medicine st bheldon Illf>r about 20 years and moved t> Elk City about two years ago He was a little less than 55 yeirs old and leaves a wife, two sous, and h o daughters. None of his family were with him when he diedHis wife acd two child-en being at Albuquerque New Mex- where she whs staying for her health and the other son is prac icing mebici e in Montana and the other daughter teaching school at Sheldon. Another eon Dr. Elmer Irwin who was partly educated here, ditd some years ago. He was formerly in good c roumstances financially but after very liberally educating his children especially his three sons I and then following this ihi sickness and death of his son Elmer’s wife, then of Elmer himself both by consumpr.'on, and since then the sickness of hta wife by the same disease hid very mcc'i impaired his means and he probably leaves but a small estateIt is not yet known here whether he will bi buried at Elk City or brought back t j Sheldon.