EDWARD S. IRWIN, formerly a well known business man of Charleston, W. Va., was born in 1825, in Malden district, Kanawha county, and died at his home in Charleston, in February, (sic) 1891. He was reared on a farm and was educated at Gallipolis, O., and started into business in this city as a grocery merchant. Some years later he went into the livery business which he continued until his last sickness. The parents of the late Edward S. Irwin were David and Mary Irwin. The father owned salt furnaces in Kanawha county and operated the same until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he moved with his family to Gallia county, O., where he purchased a farm and spent the remainder of his life there. He and wife were Presbyterians. They had a number of sons, records of two, John and David, being as follows: John continued in Gallia county, a farmer, married Mary A. Clark and they had a large family. She survives but he died at the age of seventy years. David, known as Captain David, was commander of a boat for some years on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers but later retired to his farm in Gallia county, where he died at the age of seventy-three years. He married a native of Indiana, an educated lady who was formerly a teacher. She died in 1910, in her eighty-first year, the mother of three sons and one daughter. Edward S. Irwin was married at Cincinnati to Miss Elizabeth A. Nevius, who was born March 3, 1845, and was reared at Charleston and resides in her beautiful home situated at No. 1506 Quarrier street, which she erected in 1909. Her parents were James and Mary (McCleland) Nevius, the former of whom was born in Rockbridge county, Va., a son of Abraham Nevius, who was one of the venerable men of that county at the time of death. He was of Scotch extraction and of Presbyterian religious faith. James Nevius was a blacksmith and when he came to Charleston conducted a smithy for some years and was known as a man of strength and skill. For twenty years before death he lived retired. In early life a Whig he subsequently became a Republican and during the Civil War was outspoken in his support of the Union cause. He was a working member of the Kanawha Presbyterian church. His first wife, the mother of Mrs. Irwin, died in 1849, when a little over forty years of age. His second marriage was in Kanawha county, to Panoply Kendrick, a native of New Hampshire and a daughter of a Baptist minister. She left no children. Mrs. Irwin is the youngest of three sons and four daughters, all of whom grew to maturity, as follows: Nancy, who is the wife of Frank Cart, resides in Colorado and they have twelve children: John, who died in 1902, at Gallipolis, owned and operated a wharfboat there for twenty-five years, married Julia Baxter, who lives there with their one daughter, Ida; Fannie, who died in Missouri, aged sixty years, was the wife of James Sharrock, who is also deceased; Robert Logan, who died in Colorado, had lived there many years, married Elisabeth Wilson who lives there with one son and two daughters; George, who now lives at Huntington, O., is a retired lumberman, married Emma Murphy and has four children; and Mrs. Irwin. She has three children: Mary N.; Bessie K., who is the wife of Washington L. Goldsmith, a prominent insurance man and has one son; and Robert F., who is a commercial salesman. Mrs. Irwin and family are members of the Kanawha Presbyterian church. Taken from the History of Charleston and Kanawha County West Virginia and Representative Citizens, W. S. Laidley, Richmond- Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1911.