Bio of Mullen, Capt. J. H. Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Mullen, Capt. J. H., attorney-at law, admitted to practice at the spring
term of the district court, held in Wabasha, in 1883. Capt. Mullen, as he
is universally called, came to this county in 1866, the year after the war
closed, and in which he had seen over four years of active service, having
enlisted June 5, 1861, and being mustered out in August, 1865, as captain
of Co. C, 12th regt. Conn. Vol. Inf. The captain saw service with Gen.
McClellan on the peninsula; was with Butler's forces at New Orleans, with
Bank's command at Port Hudson, and on the Red River campaign; with Grant
at Petersburg, and the battles around Richmond; then with Sheridan in the
Shenandoah valley, returning with him to Petersburg, and participating in
the closing struggle of the war at Five Forks; was with the army in the
grand review at Washington, and being ordered to Savannah, Georgia, did
not go immediately north, but was in the service until August, when they
returned home and were mustered out at Hartford, August, 1865. The
following year, 1866, located in Wabasha, and has since been engaged in
trade, merchandising and farming. His farming operations are carried on
along the line of the Hastings & Dakota railway, where he has a tract of
about thirteen hundred acres seventy miles west of St. Paul. April 15,
1874, Capt. Mullen married Miss M. B. Downer, daughter of John B. Downer,
one of the old pioneers of Wabasha county. Mrs. Mullen has a decided
talent for painting, which has been to some extent cultivated, and work on
canvass and silk is really artistic, and would do no discredit to a
collection of genuine merit. Some of her decorative work on panels, in
water colors, is exquisite in color and naturalness. Two children have
been born to the captain and his wife: Carrie, born October 10, 1875;
Downer, born May 20, 1880.