BIOGRAPHIES:  George B. Mack MULLIKIN, Barron Township, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  7 January 2004
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George B. Mack Mullikin was born in Littletown Township, Grafton County,
New Hampshire, March 13, 1864, son of George and Elizabeth (Fitzgerald)
Mullikin. The father, who was a millwright by trade, operated a flouring
mill in New Hampshire. He brought the family to Johnstown, Crawford County,
Wis., about 1871, and opened a turning shop, where he worked in wood and
metals. The subject of this sketch remained with his parents until
attaining young manhood. In the summer of 1881 he made his first trip to
Kansas. Late that year he began operating two farms in Crawford County,
Wisconsin, owned by his father and his father-in-law. In the fall of 1888
he moved to Banner County, Nebraska, which he had previously visited, and
homesteaded 120 acres of prairie land there. He built a sod house, broke
part of the land, and seemed on the high road to prosperity. But the
drought, the hot winds and the grasshoppers ruined all agricultural
prospects, and in the fall of 1896 he returned to Wisconsin. Coming to
Barron County, he bought 120 acres of land in Section 5, Barron Township,
built a house and began operations by clearing the land. With this
beginning he has built up a good place and is regarded as one of the
prosperous men of the community. He was married Nov. 25, 1885, to Anna
Hinze, born in Brandenberg, Germany, Feb. 7, 1866, daughter of William and
Minnie (Witty) Hinze, who came to America about 1870 and settled at
Watertown, Wis., where the father worked as a mason, later going to
Crawford County, Wisconsin, and settling on a farm. Mr. Hinze died there
May 20, 1886, and Mrs. Hinze died in Stanfold Township, this county, Feb.
8, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Mullikin are the parents of eleven children, the
two oldest born in Crawford County, Wisconsin, the next three in Banner
County, Nebraska, and the others in this county. Mabel E. was born March
30, 1887, and is the wife of William Statton, of Cumberland Township, this
county. Melvin W. was born Oct. 5, 1889, and now lives at Doran, Minn.
Frank H. was born March 29, 1891, and now lives at Marshfield, Wis. George
M. was born June 2, 1892, and now lives in Barron Township. Amil G. was
born Dec. 24, 1894, and now lives in Barron Township. Minnie E. was born
Sept. 25, 1897, and is the wife of Adolph Hanson, of Barron Township.
Herman D., born Oct. 14, 1901; Anna M., born Oct. 9, 1904; Fred E., born
Aug. 29, 1907; Manford H., born April 6, 1909, and Alice I. born June 3,
1911, are all at home. The family worships at the "Hope" Church of the
Evangelical Association. Amil was inducted into the service in October,
1917, trained at Camp Grant with the 341st Infantry, Company F, and was
discharged six months later on account of disability. Mr. Mack Mullikin is
one of eleven children: Jane, wife of Oliver Peck, of Crawford County,
Wisconsin; Abbie, wife of William McBurney, of Wood County, Wisconsin;
Mark, of Crawford County, Wisconsin; Nellie, deceased; Minnie, wife of
James Tansey, of Chicago; George B.; John; Alice, now Mrs. George Gordon,
of Michigan; Thomas, of Crawford County, Wisconsin; Dade, of Crawford
County, Wisconsin, and Mittie, deceased. Mrs. Mack Mullikin is one of five
children: Frank and Gustaf, of Mt. Holly, N. J.; Anna, Herman, of Stanfold
Township, this county, and Henry, of Doran, Minn. The name of "Mack
Mullikin" is derived from Gen. George B. McClellan, in Civil War days,
familiarly called "Little Mac," after whom he was named, his father’s name
being Mullikin.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 148-149.

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