Biography of Isaac McMullen, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: McMullen, Hall, Bragg, West.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 335

Isaac McMullen, one of the leading farmers and most respected citizens of the
vicinity of Pine post office was born in Goderich, Ontario, in 1846. He lived
with his parents, William H. and Elizabeth (Hall) McMullen, natives of
Ireland, until he became eighteen years old, acquiring a common school
education and learning the trade of a shoemaker. Upon giving inception to his
independent career he set out for Chicago and from that time until 1866 he
traveled quite extensively, going as far south as Kentucky. In 1866 he came
out to Nebraska City, and thence along the Union Pacific railroad, as a member
of different construction crews.

In January, 1869, our subject landed in the northern part of Eagle valley,
Baker county, and he lived where the premises of W. Tobin now are, for a year
or two, coming then to Pine valley, where he took a homestead of one hundred
and sixty acres and engaged in farming and stockraising. To this dual
occupation he has given his best energies ver since, with good success. He has
a pleasant home, comfortably environed, and a place well supplied with
buildings and equipments. Though vitally interested in the welfare of his
community, county and state, he has never been himself a candidate for
political preferment, and never ha sought personal aggrandizement. He has,
however done his share for the cause of education by serving as director of
his district.

In 1878 Mr. MuMullen married Betty K., daughter of Joseph and Susan (West)
Bragg, natives of Missouri, and they have three children: Joseph W., Maud M.,
and Bessie M., all at home.

Mr. McMullen's father was a veteran of the war of 1812, being a boy of sixteen
at the time hostilities commenced.