Writer, Irwin Succumbs at 83
SOUTHERN PINES N.C. (AP)
Wallace Irwin, journalist and author died at this resort town Saturday after an illness. He was 83.
Irwin, born in Oneida, N.Y., began his career in 1906 as a special writer on the San Francisco Examiner. He was on the staff of Collier's Weekly in 1906-1907.
His works include "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr." "Pilgrims into Folly" "Venus in the East" "The Blooming Angel" "Suffering Husbands" "Lew Tyler's Wives" "The Golden Bed" " Mated" and "The Julius Caesar Murder Case." In 1907-1908 he collaborated with the famed newsman – writer Richard Harding Davis on a light opera, "The Yankee Tourist."
Funeral arrangements were incomplete. Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. His widow, Mrs. Laetitia McDonald Irwin, formerly lived in that city.
Other survivors are two sons, Donald McDonald Irwin, with the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune; and Wallace Irwin Jr. a public information officer with the U.S. delegation at the United Nations.
Victoria Advocate (Victoria, Texas)
Published: 15 Feb 1959
SOUTHERN PINES N.C. (AP)
Wallace Irwin, journalist and author died at this resort town Saturday after an illness. He was 83.
Irwin, born in Oneida, N.Y., began his career in 1906 as a special writer on the San Francisco Examiner. He was on the staff of Collier's Weekly in 1906-1907.
His works include "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr." "Pilgrims into Folly" "Venus in the East" "The Blooming Angel" "Suffering Husbands" "Lew Tyler's Wives" "The Golden Bed" " Mated" and "The Julius Caesar Murder Case." In 1907-1908 he collaborated with the famed newsman – writer Richard Harding Davis on a light opera, "The Yankee Tourist."
Funeral arrangements were incomplete. Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. His widow, Mrs. Laetitia McDonald Irwin, formerly lived in that city.
Other survivors are two sons, Donald McDonald Irwin, with the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune; and Wallace Irwin Jr. a public information officer with the U.S. delegation at the United Nations.
Victoria Advocate (Victoria, Texas)
Published: 15 Feb 1959
Writer, Irwin Succumbs at 83
SOUTHERN PINES N.C. (AP)
Wallace Irwin, journalist and author died at this resort town Saturday after an illness. He was 83.
Irwin, born in Oneida, N.Y., began his career in 1906 as a special writer on the San Francisco Examiner. He was on the staff of Collier's Weekly in 1906-1907.
His works include "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr." "Pilgrims into Folly" "Venus in the East" "The Blooming Angel" "Suffering Husbands" "Lew Tyler's Wives" "The Golden Bed" " Mated" and "The Julius Caesar Murder Case." In 1907-1908 he collaborated with the famed newsman – writer Richard Harding Davis on a light opera, "The Yankee Tourist."
Funeral arrangements were incomplete. Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. His widow, Mrs. Laetitia McDonald Irwin, formerly lived in that city.
Other survivors are two sons, Donald McDonald Irwin, with the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune; and Wallace Irwin Jr. a public information officer with the U.S. delegation at the United Nations.
Victoria Advocate (Victoria, Texas)
Published: 15 Feb 1959
SOUTHERN PINES N.C. (AP)
Wallace Irwin, journalist and author died at this resort town Saturday after an illness. He was 83.
Irwin, born in Oneida, N.Y., began his career in 1906 as a special writer on the San Francisco Examiner. He was on the staff of Collier's Weekly in 1906-1907.
His works include "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr." "Pilgrims into Folly" "Venus in the East" "The Blooming Angel" "Suffering Husbands" "Lew Tyler's Wives" "The Golden Bed" " Mated" and "The Julius Caesar Murder Case." In 1907-1908 he collaborated with the famed newsman – writer Richard Harding Davis on a light opera, "The Yankee Tourist."
Funeral arrangements were incomplete. Burial will be in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. His widow, Mrs. Laetitia McDonald Irwin, formerly lived in that city.
Other survivors are two sons, Donald McDonald Irwin, with the Washington bureau of the New York Herald Tribune; and Wallace Irwin Jr. a public information officer with the U.S. delegation at the United Nations.
Victoria Advocate (Victoria, Texas)
Published: 15 Feb 1959
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