Dr. Edgar Harland Irvin, a retired eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, died in El Paso on April 17, 1955. He was the son of Dr. Orlando Clark and Elizabeth MacMillan Irvin, and was born on January 26, 1875 in Bunker Hill, Indiana. He attended public schools in Cleveland, Ohio and El Paso, Texas. In 1899, he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He became a staff member of Hotel Dieu in El Paso and had practiced in that city for 53 years. He retired in 1952.
Dr. Irvin was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the El Paso County Medical Society almost continuously from 1904 until 1948. He was a past president of the El Paso County Medical Society, and a member of Phi Alpha Sigma medical fraternity. During World War I, he served as a captain in the medical corps.
Dr. Irvin and Miss Ida B. Crawford were married in Philadelphia on April 18, 1900. Survivors include Mrs. Irvin of El Paso, one daughter, Mrs. W.D. Woodul of El Paso; two sons, Harland M. Irvin of Los Angeles, California, and C.M. Irvin of El Paso; one sister, Miss Hallie P. Irvin of El Paso, eleven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
= = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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