Charles Walter IRWIN

                   REFERENCE: REIM, Herman A., 1954-1972; genealogical file.
HENNIG, Erwin K., 17 Sep 1996; genealogical file on HENNIG and LANGE families.
LANDHOM, Joy M., 5 Aug 1996; genealogical file on the HENNIG family.
MARRIAGE RECORD, Burt County Clerk, Tekamah, Nebraska; Book 3, page 540.

OBITUARY, Mrs. C.W. Irwin; attended a country school, and at the age of sixteen
received her certificate to teach.  She became interested in the messages of
the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and together with four of her sisters and one
brother, accepted the doctrines to which she was a firm adherent up to the time
of her death.  After about 1921, her last regular work was in the interest of
the Fireside Correspondence School, after coming to Takoma Park.  In her last
days, she came to the Washington Sanitarium as a patient (am unclear if the
Washington Sanitarium is in Trenton, N.J. or Washington, D.C.).  Middle name
spelt "Velara".

Write up in Erwin Hennig's 17 Sep 1996 genealogical file; "Minnie Valeria
Hennig was born 23 Feb 1868 near Tekamah and died 16 Feb 1927 of influenza and
pneumonia.  As a young girl she was a teacher and in her third year of college
at Union College, she met Prof. Charles Walter Irwin, who was teaching in the
college and was later married 14 Aug 1895.  During her entire life she and
Prof. Irwin gave their time to religous work, especially educational work in
the colleges.  After leaving College View, they went to Graysville College in
Tenn. where both taught three years.  The seven years from 1891 to 1898 they
both served at Union College where Prof. Irwin was President.  In 1901 they
were placed in charge of Avonsdale College at Sidney, Australia where they
remained eight years.  Returning from Australia in 1909 by way of Europe, they
travelled through Egypt and the countries of Europe, reaching the U.S. and
Prof. Irwin was next called to Pacific College, Calif. as its president where
they remained twelve years, untill taking up their residence at Takoma Park,
Montgomery County, Maryland . Minnie died Feb 16, 1927 in Trenton, N.J.  She was
buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.  They had no children."