Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Mulvihill, Jeremiah April 12, 1853 - June 4, 1900
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     This active, industrious and progressive fruit man and good citizen of Mesa

county, whose untimely death on June 4, 1900, at the early age of thirty-seven

years, caused general regret throughout the community in which his usefulness

was just beginning to be felt with force and good effect, was born in county

Kerry, Ireland, on April 12, 1853, where his parents, Patrick and Catherine

(Murphy) Mulvihill, were also native, and where they passed their lives.  Their

son Jeremiah remained in Ireland until he was twenty, and then, in the spring of

1873, came to the Untied States and located in Pennsylvania, where he was in

charge of a stone quarry for four years.  In 1877 he came west to Colorado,

stopping at Denver.  There he took a job in a flour-mill which he held for two

years, then became section boss for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.  In the

employ of this company he first went to Leadville and laid the first tracks for

the road from South Park to that town.  He remained there until October, 1895,

when he moved to Palisade and during the next five years he conducted the

Palisade hotel.  In 1900 he bought the ranch on which his family now live, about

one mile and a half west of the town.  It comprises twenty acres, about fifteen

acres of which are in fruit trees in good bearing order.  Mr. Mulvihill sowed

the other five acres in alfalfa, and was about to build a dwelling on the place

when he died on June 4th of that year and left his plans to be carried out by

his widow and children.  She received two thousand dollars insurance on his life

and with this she built a comfortable dwelling and otherwise improved the place,

and since then she has lived on it and managed its operations with the help of

her sons.  She was Miss Mary Dore, and was born in county Limerick, Ireland, on

July 24, 1853, the daughter of parents who were natives of the same county. 

Mrs. Mulvihill is a good business woman and manages her affairs with judgment

and skill.  In 1903 she sold some twelve hundred dollars worth of fruit with

other products, and her profits are steadily on the increase.  She has five

children, Patrick F., John J., Jeremiah, Edward and Catharine.  They are all

living at home and all aid in the work on the farm.  Her husband was a member of

the Catholic church, as she is herself, and belonged to the Woodmen of the

World.  In political faith he was a Democrat.  In the fall of 1903 the widow

sold ten acres of her land for four thousand dollars, and what she kept is much

more valuable.  She is held in high esteem throughout the neighborhood in which

she lives and deserves the position she occupies in the regard and good will of

the people around her.

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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