The IRWIN FAMILY HISTORY BOOKS cover the following families listed below along with two major corporations started by Samuel Irwin’s five sons.
THE FAMILIES COVED ARE:
Irwin,
Floyd,
Clement,
Dittrich,
Allen,
Rushton,
Hershey,
Harnish,
Bachman,
Smith,
Clark,
Campbell,
Eagles,
Buck,
Ligget,
Carroll,
MacGill,
and Schmidt and Pflager.
THE IRWIN FAMILY CORPORATIONS WERE:
L. H. Parke Company started in 1889 by William P. M. Irwin with locations by 1962 in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, Richmond, VA, and Albany,NY, and Irwin - Harrison’s - Whitney Corporation started by Andrew P. Irwin in 1884. By the 1920s the corporation was located in both Philadelphia and New York City along with 18 sales and buying tea locations in the United States and around the world.
A second group of Lulu books were published under the name “POSTCARDART”, one of the largest publisher of vintage American post cards books. Some of the books are about Wellesley, MA, Castine, Maine, Charleston, SC, Palm Beach, FL, Mount Dora, FL, Eustis, FL, Daytona, FL, Winter Park, FL, La Jolla, CA, Hershey Candy Bars, Yale University, Christian Science Church Buildings and Nantucket. MA.
