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Irwin, G. M

educator, clergyman, was born Nov. 11, 1835, in Zanesville, Ohio. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university, and received the degrees of A. M. and D. D. He has become an eminent minister of the methodist episcopal church; and during the civil war served as chaplain. He is now state superintendent of public instruction for Oregon. For many years he was president of the Blue Mountain university of Oregon; and was the superintendent of the United States Indian industrial school of Salem.

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