Francis P. Mullaney Biography


	This biography appears on pages 661-662 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				FRANCIS P. MULLANEY.  

	Francis P. Mullaney, a prominent Lake county farmer and a member 
of one of the pioneer families of this part of the state, was born in 
McHenry county, Illinois, December 28, 1863. His father, Patrick 
Mullaney, was a native of County Tipperary, Ireland. and was five years 
of age when brought to America by his parents, who first settled in 
Wisconsin but afterward removed to McHenry county, Illinois. The 
grandfather also bore the name of Patrick. In 1865 the father of 
Francis P. Mullaney removed to Iowa and in 1879 came to Dakota 
territory, settling in Lake county, near the village of Nunda, where he 
took up homestead and tree claims. The follwoing year he brought his 
family to that frontier farm, whereon he resided until his death, which 
occurred in 1914, when he was ninety years of age. He was married in 
McHenry county, Illinois, to Catherine Fleming, a native of Ireland, 
who died in 1910, at the age of eighty-one years. They had ten 
children, of whom Francis P. Mullaney was the sixth in order of birth 
and is one of three now surviving. The father was a highly honored 
citizen of his community, was a devoted member of the Catholic church 
and a lifelong democrat in his political views.  

	Francis P. Mullaney attended the public schools of Iowa and on 
coming to Dakota territory when about seventeen years of age began 
farming on his own account. He owns a highly improved tract of land of 
three hundred and twenty acres, devoted to general farming and stock-
raising, and his business affairs are carefully and systematically 
directed, therefore resulting in success. He is also a stockholder in 
the Farmers Elevator Company at Nunda and served for six years as one 
of its board of directors. He is likewise a stockholder in the Battle 
Creek Telephone Company.  

	Mr. Mullaney was married on the 14th of February, 1893, to Miss 
Elizabeth McKinley, a daughter of John and Ellen (Fleming) McKinley, of 
Postville, Iowa. To Mr. and Mrs. Mullaney have been born the following 
children: Thomas; Mary; Annie; John; Kathryn; Francis; Helen; 
Elizabeth, deceased; Robert; Rose; Leonard; Lucy; Emily; William, who 
has passed away; and Loraine.  

	Mr. Mullaney turns for recreation from strenuous business cares 
to hunting and fishimg and greatly enjoys being in the wilds with a rod 
or gun. In politics he is a democrat where national issues are involved 
but casts an independent local ballot. For eighteen years he served as 
a member of the town board and in that connection was a consistent 
worker for local improvements, particularly good roads. A member of the 
Badus Parish Catholic church, he is well known among the people of that 
faith and also among other residents of Lake county, where his course 
as a business man and citizen has gained for him favorable regard.