Biography

04/02/1840 - 02/28/1901

IRWIN, David Allison, a Representative from Lycoming, Snyder and Union Counties; born, April 2, 1840 in Union County, Pa.; attended, Mifflinburg Academy; second lieutenant, Company F, 113th Regiment, 12th Pennsylvania Volunteer Calvary (1862, Civil War); captain, Company E, 113th Regiment, 12th Pennsylvania Volunteer Calvary (1862-1865, Civil War); commissioned, captain, United States Army; laborer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1866 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1867 term; superintendent, Old Soldiers’ Home, Washington D.C.; presidential appointee, professor, military tactics and science, Michigan Military Academy (1901); died, February 28, 1901 in Orchard Lake, Oakland County, Michigan; interred, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia.