Husband Dr. Thomas Armstrong Irwin, A.M., M.D. 1 2
Born: 13 Oct 1862 - Wolf Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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Father: Thomas Sampson Irwin ( - ) 2
Mother: Dorothy Ellen Hosack ( - ) 2
Marriage: 19 Dec 1895 - ? Venango Co, PA 2
Wife Helen Isabell Patterson 1 2
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Father: Isaac Newton Patterson (1833- ) 1 3
Mother: Ella Donzella Frame ( - ) 1
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Thomas Armstrong Irwin, A.M., M.D.
Having received his preliminary education in the common schools of his native township he pursued advanced literary studies in the high school at Mercer, Pennsylvania, and in the College at Grove City. He began his medical course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1885. He completed it in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, from which he was graduated Feb. 21, 1888, returning at once to his home state and locating at Franklin March 8, 1888. After seven years of successful general practice Dr. Irwin decided to prepare himself for the more exacting duties of the specialist by a year or more of study in the best institutions of America and Europe, beginning with a course at the New York Post Graduate Hospital in 1895.
On Jan. 1, 1896, he sailed for London, where he did comprehensive special work in various hospitals, studying at King's College Hospital and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and graduating from the London Homeopathic Hospital and the London Throat Hospital. From London he proceeded to Vienna, Austria, where he took special instruction at the Government Hospital, an immense institution, containing five thousand beds. On his return to America in October, 1896, he entered the Philadelphia Polyclinic Hospital and subsequently the New York Polyclinic, graduating from both these hospitals. He then resumed active practice at Franklin, was respected and consulted as an authority by workers in his own field. He was a member of the Venango County and Pennsylvania State Medical Societies, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. His honorary degree of A. M. was conferred by Grove City College. [HVC 1919, 944]