MULVIHILL, Jeremiah, b 1853 1905 Bio, Mesa County, Colorado http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/mesa/bios/mulvihillj.txt --------------------------------------- Donated September 29, 2001 Transcribed by Judy Crook from the book: Progressive Men of Western Colorado Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill. --------------------------------------- Jeremiah Mulvihill 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. =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.