Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....MULLEN, Edward J. 1865 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      EDWARD J. MULLEN, one of the leading members of the Sullivan county bar, was
  born in Overton township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1865, a son
  of Martin and Sabina (Clark) Mullen. He attended the public schools of his
  native township until sixteen years of age, when he entered the Susquehanna
  Collegiate Institute at Towanda and there completed his literary education,
  graduating in 1885. After leaving school he went to Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and
  there engaged in teaching for one year, subsequently securing a school at North
  Towanda, where he remained another year, registering in the meantime as a law
  student in the office of William Maxwell and giving all his spare time and his
  vacation to the study of his chosen profession. During the fall and winter of
  1888-89 he taught school at Laporte, Pennsylvania, and in the fall and winter of
  1889-90 he was similarly engaged at Sonestown. In the spring of 1891 he entered
  the office of Hon. Bryan C. Collins, of Dushore, and, completing his law
  studies, was admitted to the bar in May, 1892. Until 1896 he practiced at
  Dushore and then removed to Laporte, where he now resides.
  
      Mr. Mullen is acknowledged as one of the leading attorneys of Sullivan
  county, and by many as the leading one; and he enjoys a large and lucrative
  practice, his oratorical powers and convincing arguments before a jury being
  well known. He was admitted to the Bradford county bar in 1896 and to the bar of
  the supreme court in 1898. In politics Mr. Mullen is an active Democrat, and in
  1890 he was a delegate to the state convention from Bradford county and assisted
  at the nomination of Pattison. He was elected chairman of the county committee
  of Sullivan county in 1892, serving until 1897; was elected a delegate to the
  state convention at Reading in 1897, and was elected and served as district
  attorney from 1895 to 1898.
  
      On June 10, 1896, Mr. Mullen was united in marriage to Miss Mary O'Donovan,
  daughter of Dennis and Mary O'Donovan, of Arnot, Pennsylvania, who were formerly
  residents of Sullivan county. Mr. and Mrs. Mullen are both consistent members of
  the Roman Catholic church.
  
       Martin Mullen, father of our subject, is a prominent farmer of Overton
  township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and is a native of county Mayo,
  Ireland, where he was born November 10, 1837, his parents being Bartholomew and
  Ann (Judge) Mullen, who also were born in county Mayo. The family emigrated to
  Canada in 1847 and moved to Overton, Pennsylvania, in 1851, where they spent the
  remainder of their lives in agricultural pursuits. The father departed this life
  in 1862 and the mother in 1891. Martin Mullen received a common-school
  education, and, following his father's example became a tiller of the soil. He
  married Miss Sabina Clark, a daughter of John and Barbara (Brown) Clark, both of
  them being natives of Ireland. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mullen:
  Mary A., who became the wife of John Welch; Edward J., the immediate subject of
  this sketch; and Barbara C. The Mullens have for many years been prominent
  farmers of Bradford county.
  
  
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              Extracted from: 
                
              History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
              by Thomas J. Ingham
                
              Compendium of Biography
                
              The Lewis Publishing Company
              Chicago: 1899
  
  
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