Hiram C. Irvin

ANDREWS, DUDLEY, IRVIN, VITTINGHOFF

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 8/27/2004 at 15:39:52

“History of Madison County Iowa and Its People”
Herman A. Mueller, Supervising Editor
Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1915

Dr. H. C. Irvin has been actively engaged in the practice of medicine at Earlham for the past quarter of a century and enjoys an enviable reputation as a successful and skilled representative of the profession. His birth occurred in Laporte, Indiana, on the 4th of August, 1868, his parents being James F. and Martha E. (Andrews) Irvin, who were natives of Ohio and Indiana respectively.

The father, who completed a medical course by graduation in Philadelphia in 1854, took up his abode at Laporte, Indiana, in a very early day and there remained in the active practice of his profession until 1868. In that year he came to Iowa and opened an office in Adel, Dallas county, where he was continuously engaged in practice for seventeen years. Subsequently he spent fifteen years as a physician of Earlham and then removed to Des Moines, where he remained in practice for twelve years, or until his demise, which occurred in September, 1909, when he had attained the age of eighty-two years. His wife passed away on the 24th of January, 1896.

H. C. Irvin pursued a high-school course in Adel and afterward spent two years in the study of medicine under the direction of his father, then entering the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri at St. Louis, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1890. In March of that year he began practice in association with his father at Earlham, which town has since remained the scene of his professional labors. He has demonstrated his skill and ability in the successful treatment of many difficult cases and an extensive and gratifying practice has therefore been accorded him. He belongs to the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association and acts as city physician and health officer, having thus ably served for several years.

Dr. Irvin has been married twice. In September, 1889, he wedded Miss Henrietta Vittinghoff, her father being William Vittinghoff, a native of Germany and a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, where he was engaged in the undertaking and livery business for a number of years and where he passed away in 1911. To H. C. and Henrietta (Vittinghoff) Irvin were born five children, as follows: Harry, who is a practicing physician of Adel, Iowa; James, a resident of Oklahoma; and Hiram, Fred and Gerald, all at home. The wife and mother passed away on the 24th of December, 1908, and in November, 1912, Dr. Irvin was again married, his second union being with Miss Ethel Dudley, a daughter of Abraham B. and Mary Dudley. Her father went to Kansas City in an early day and was there engaged in the packing business for a number of years. He is now a coal-mine operator of Centerville, Iowa.

Dr. Irvin gives his political allegiance to the democracy, loyally supporting the men and measures of that party at the polls. He has not allied himself with any particular church but is a man of upright and honorable life who guides his actions by the Golden Rule. He enjoys an enviable reputation in both professional and social circles of his community and has made a host of warm friends here.

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