Raymond William Mullen, M. D.


	This biography appears on pages 750-751 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" 	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and 
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				RAYMOND WILLIAM MULLEN, M. D. 

	Dr. Raymond William Mullen has successfully engaged in the 
practice of medicine at Florence for the past nine years, having 
thoroughly qualified for the profession through comprehensive study and 
hospital work. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, September 23, 1878, his 
parents being Richard and Bridget (Cannon) Mullen, both natives of 
Ireland. They emigrated to the United States in early life and, 
locating in Omaha, the father was associated with the Union Pacific 
Railroad Company for thirty-five years. He departed this life in 1912 
but the mother survives and still makes her home in Omaha. 

	Dr. Mullen pursued his early education in the public and high 
schools of Omaha and afterward had the benefit of a course in Creighton 
University of that city, from which he graduated in 1898 with the A. B. 
degree. Subsequently he entered the medical department of that 
institution and won his professional degree with the class of 1902. He 
immediately located in Chappell, Nebraska, but remained in practice 
there for only a brief period, after which he went to Springfield, 
Missouri, where for three years he served on the medical staff of the 
Frisco Hospital. On the expiration of that period he went to 
Bloomington, Illinois, where he spent a short time, and in 1906 located 
for practice in Florence, South Dakota. He has in the nine years of his 
residence in this city successfully followed his profession, winning a 
large and lucrative practice which he well merits. The Doctor owns one 
hundred and sixty acres of land in Dexter township, Codington county, 
this state. 

	It was on the 21st of April, 1909, that Dr. Mullen was united in 
marriage to Miss Mary Rilev. a native of Estherville, Iowa, and a 
daughter of Patrick and Mary Riley, now of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 
and to this union have been born a daughter and son, Mary Madeline and 
Richard William. 

	That he may keep in touch with the work and advancement of the 
profession, Dr. Mullen is identified with the American Medical 
Association, the Watertown District Medical Society, the Sioux Valley 
Medical Association and the South Dakota State Medical Society, In 
politics he is a republican and in the spring of 1914 he was a 
candidate for nomination on that ticket to the state legislature. The 
Doctor was formerly a member of the State Militia and for three years 
served as first lieutenant of the Fourth Regiment, while for two years 
he was captain of the medical corps of that regiment, resigning his 
commission in April, 1914. His religious faith is that of the Catholic 
church, while his fraternal connections are with Watertown Lodge, No. 
838, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, with the Knights of Columbus, 
and with the Modern Woodmen of America. Although his residence in 
Florence has been of short duration he has gained a large circle of 
friends, owing not only to his professional ability but also to his 
personal worth, which inspires admiration and warm regard.