Hugh Mullarky (1865-1953)

MULLARKY

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 11/3/2022 at 22:36:33

Hugh Mullarky Jr., M. D.
(Jan 16, 1865 – April 13, 1953)

One of the most popular, capable and well known physicians of Calhoun County is Dr. H. Mullarky, who was born in Butler County, Iowa, January 16, 1865. He is yet a young man, but has attained a reputation which many an older practitioner might well envy. His parents were H. and Margaret (Giblin) Mullarky, the former born in Galway, Ireland, in 1825, the later in Burlington, Vermont. On becoming a resident of the Prairie state the father took up his abode upon a farm in Stephenson County, Illinois, becoming one of its honored pioneer settlers. His nearest market at that time was Chicago and the region in which he made his home was largely wild and unimproved. At the time of the gold excitement in California he crossed the plains to the Pacific coast, and in 1855 he became a resident of Butler county, Iowa, where he secured land from the government, making his home thereon until his death. In her widowhood Mrs. Mullarky moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where she is still living with her daughter, Mrs. John H. Storey. The Doctor's parents had a family of eight children: John, who is engaged in the oil business in California; Frank, who is living on the old homestead in Butler county, Iowa; Dr. W. G.. who married Lena De Wolf and resides in Grundy county. Iowa; Ella, the wife of John A. Storey, of Omaha, Nebraska; Margaret, the deceased wife of Henry Meyers, of Butler county; the Doctor; E. E., who is proprietor of the city pharmacy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and A. A., who is a bookkeeper in Chicago. Doctor Mullarky began his education in the public schools of Butler county and afterward became a student in the Iowa State University, at Iowa City, in which he was graduated with the class of 1889. He first began practice in Laurel, Marshall County, Iowa, where he remained a short time, and later he was located in Minnesota and afterward in Nebraska. Subsequently he removed to Oklahoma, but in the fall of 1892 returned to his native state and established an office in Manson, where he has practiced continuously since, enjoying a constantly increasing patronage. In 1896 he opened a pharmacy and that branch of business is also proving a profitable source of income to him. At present he is serving as physician for the Rock Island Railroad Company at this place, has been pension examiner and is now city health officer of Manson. On the 23d of May, 1894, was celebrated the marriage of Doctor Mullarky and Dorothy O. Le Moine, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Le Moine, who are residents of this city. Our subject and his wife now have two children, Margaret and Joseph. In his political affiliations the Doctor is a Democrat, but is not bitterly aggressive. He owns landed possessions in Minnesota, together with his pleasant home in Manson. Socially he is connected with the Knights of Pythias fraternity, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. All that tends to bring to man the key to the mystery which we call life elicits his earnest interest, and he has carried his investigations far and wide into the realms of medical knowledge. He keeps in touch with the advanced thought 01 the day through his connection with the Fort Dodge District Medical Society and the Iowa State Medical Society. [Source – Biographical Record of Calhoun County, Iowa, by S.J. Clarke, 1902, p.444]