Biography

1816 - 12/14/1880

IRWIN, John M., a Representative from Allegheny County, born, 1816 in Allegheny County, Pa.; furniture craftsmen; owner, John M. Furniture & Co.; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1857; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1858, 1859); reelected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1874 and 1875; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1876); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1877); director, Iron City Fire Insurance Company; died, December 14, 1880 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.