Teller County, History of Colorado, BIOS: MULLEN, Robert G. (published 1918) *********************************************************************** 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. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003643 December 2, 1999 *********************************************************************** "History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II p. 424, 426 photo p. R. G. Mullen ROBERT G. MULLEN. Robert G. Mullen is the vice president and general manager of the Tri-State Oil & Refining Company. Mr. Mullen is of Canadian birth. The place of his nativity is Caledonia, Canada, and the date November 5, 1863. His parents were Robert and Hannah (Cooper) Mullen, both of whom were natives of Canada, whence they removed to Michigan, where they took up their abode in 1882. The father was interested in the mercantile business with his sons, R. G., S. B. and J. H., at Newaygo, White Cloud and Charlevoix, Michigan. He died in Lansing, Michigan, in 1908. His widow survived him for a few years, passing away in Lansing, in 1912. In their family were seven children, three of whom have passed away, while those still living are J. K., Samuel B., Mrs. Emma Walton and Robert G. Samuel B. Mullen and Mrs. Walton are residing In Lansing. Robert G. Mullen migrated to the state of Washington and organized the South Bend Real Estate & Investment Company of Mullen, Kelley & Bush, one of the largest advertising companies on the Pacific coast during the years '90 and '91. With the collapse of the boom of '91 in Washington he migrated to Creede, and from there to Cripple Creek. He was instrumental in organizing the city of Cripple Creek; was one of the organizers of a republican club and for many years was actively identified with the republican party of Colorado; he was always a strong law and order man and was deputy sheriff in '93, of El Paso county, Colorado, and was actively engaged in suppressing the Cripple Creek rebellion, during the Waite regime. From the inception of the camp he was substantially interested in the big producing mining companies. While residing in Cripple Creek he was elected police judge and was instrumental in not only the suppression of gambling but a thorough cleaning up of the town and extermination of the rough element. He formed a partnership with Senator A. R. Kennedy in 1894, known as the Mullen & Kennedy Mining and Developing Company. After the death of his partner in 1899 he formed a partnership with W. S. Boynton, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, known as Boynton & Mullen, Bankers and Brokers. During this association they undertook the financing of the Southwest Smelting & Refining Company. This project necessitated the construction of one of the largest water systems in the southwest, bringing water from the Sacramento river to the Jarilla mining district, a distance of thirty-five miles, which was completed in 1907, and which furnished water for the smelter and mining district, the ranchers and the El Paso Southwestern Railroad. He later returned to Cripple Creek and promoted the El Oro Gold Mining & Milling Company, opening up immense bodies of gold ore. At the present time he is vice president of the Tri-State Oil & Refining Company, who has four pumping plants and a vacuum plant with thirty wells pumping, and bids fair to become one of the big companies of the mid-continent oil field. In December, 1907, Mr. Mullen was united in marriage to Miss Madeline D. Rodolf of Kansas City, Missouri, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Rodolt, of Muscoda, Wisconsin. They have one child, Robert R., who was born in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on November 19, 1908, and is now attending the Collegiate Military School of Denver, Colorado.