Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected ..edand author of Historical review . land Coke Company. He is a member of the Hamilton Club, is athirty-second degree Mason, and is identified with many fraternalorganizations, including the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, theNorth American Union and the Charles W. Vail Camp of ModernWoodmen of America. He was married in 1896 to Miss Clara I. Barton, and has threechildren, Edna, Charles W. Jr., and Marjorie. Harry D. Irwin, junior member of the well-known firm of Hoyne,OConnor and Irwin, and a rising lawyer of th
Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected ..edand author of Historical review . land Coke Company. He is a member of the Hamilton Club, is athirty-second degree Mason, and is identified with many fraternalorganizations, including the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, theNorth American Union and the Charles W. Vail Camp of ModernWoodmen of America. He was married in 1896 to Miss Clara I. Barton, and has threechildren, Edna, Charles W. Jr., and Marjorie. Harry D. Irwin, junior member of the well-known firm of Hoyne,OConnor and Irwin, and a rising lawyer of the Chicago bar, is a native of Ohio, born at Scioto Furnace, on the 20th -r of Februarv, i86s. The son of Nathan H. and Irwin. , ^^ ^ . Rachel (Keeran) Irwin, his parents were both na-tives of the Buckeye state, and his early years were passed amid theiron industries of his native locality, his father being connected withvarious furnaces of southern Ohio. His father was born at New-ark, Ohio, in 1831, and his mother at Utica, that state, five yearslater. In 1875 the family removed from Ohio to the state of Illi-. cv:^.^ CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY 795 nois, where for several years the elder Irwin was engaged in farm-ing, dying in 1883 at West York, Illinois; the mother resides withher daughter at Terre Haute, Indiana. The public school systems of Ohio and Illinois furnished Mr. Ir-win with his elementary education, and in 1889 he entered the lawdepartment of the University of Michigan, and, while pursuing hisprofessional studies, accomplished considerable special work in theliterary line. Prior to his entrance to the university he had studiedlaw for a year in the office of Cullop and Shaw, one of the leadingfirms of Vincennes and southern Indiana; the result was that he hadmade such progress as to be able to complete his course in the lawschool by 1891. In June of that year Mr. Irwin was admitted toboth the Michigan and Illinois bars, and in September located inChicago as an employe
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