Age 22. 10 Fowler Street, Quincy, MA. Born on 1/19/1920, in Chelsea, MA. Died of burns (death certificate). Welder at Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River Shipyard, in Quincy. At the club with his wife Gertrude, age 23, dead. Remains of both were identified at Northern Mortuary, Boston. Was raised in Lewiston, ME. Graduate of Lewiston High School. Graduated Boston University. Was previously a salesman, New England Bedding Co. (furniture manufacturers), of Boston (WWII draft registration, October '40). Married on 1/12/1941, in Woonsocket, RI. Surname (with his wife) was erroneously shown as "Irasson" on early published casualty lists, was later corrected. Couple had no children. Birth year was oddly misstated "1918" and birth location "Lewiston, ME," on the above WWII draft registration card (no data exists in Maine state vital records to support such claims, parents were living in Chelsea as of the '20 federal census, with no children listed). Was shown as "age 10" (born in Massachusetts) in the 1930 federal census. "Height" and "weight" were left blank on his WWII draft registration card, the only such case among all male Grove fire victims with known draft cards (no explanation). One of eleven casualties employed at the above Fore River shipyard (also Joseph Clancy, age 24, Charles Duhamel, age 27, Donald MacMillan, age 30, Louis "Barry" Nash, age 29, Carl Nelson, age 19, Henry Rivoire, age 19, John Steensen, age 29, Miss J. Louise Sullivan, age 27, and single sisters Louise and Irma Wilding, ages 22 and 19, all patrons). Parents Mrs. Louise A. (Rosenberg) and stepfather Dr. Philip P. Epstein, of Providence, RI. Late birth father Mr. Benjamin Isaacson. Burial with his victim wife at Centre Street (Chevra Chai Odom) Cemetery, West Roxbury (Boston), MA (interment misreported at Lewiston, ME, in the Lewiston Evening Journal, 11/30/1942). Middle name James.

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