Mulvihill, Jerry J.

MULVIHILL, WOLFE

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Date: 2/14/2003 at 20:30:57

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

JERRY J. MULVIHILL.

Jerry J. Mulvihill, a prominent farmer residing on section six, Sharon township, is a native of Clinton county, born in Liberty township, March 3, 1858, and is a worthy representative of one of its old and honored families, his parents being Edmund and Ellen (Wolfe) Mulvihill. The father was born in Ireland and came to the new world in 1849. After residing in Illinois for a couple of years he went to California in 1851, but did not remain on the Pacific slope long, and on his return settled in Liberty township, Clinton county, Iowa, where he entered government land. Shortly afterward he returned to Illinois, where he was married, and in 1856 brought his wife to the farm he had secured in this county. To the cultivation and improvement of that place he devoted his time and attention until 1865, when he removed to section nineteen, Sharon township, and was actively engaged in farming there until 1894, when he laid aside all business cares and has since lived retired in the village of Oxford, Jones county, Iowa. Of his ten children, Jerry J., our subject, is the oldest, the others being Mary; Maurice, who is engaged in farming near our subject; Edward, a resident of Oxford, Iowa; Ellen; John; Katie; Thomas, deceased; William; and James, deceased.

Mr. Mulvihill, of this review, grew to manhood in this county, early acquiring a thorough knowledge of agricultural pursuits while assisting in the labors of the home farm, and obtaining a good practical education in the local schools. He married Miss Josie Mulvihill, of Minnesota, and they have two children, Marie and Raymond.

After his marriage our subject located on a farm near his present place, and after living there for a short time bought the John Stimson farm, which he now owns and occupies, it being a valuable tract of three hundred and twenty acres, well improved and highly cultivated. Mr. Mulvihill follows general farming and stock raising with good success, and he well deserves the prosperity that has attended his efforts, being an industrious, energetic and enterprising man, and thoroughly reliable in all business transactions. He and his wife are members of the Catholic church of Oxford, and politically he is a supporter of the Democratic party.