MULLINIX, Dr. C. P.

MULLINIX, CRAWFORD, LOCKWOOD, MORGAN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/12/2014 at 19:00:00

Biography ~ Dr. C. P. Mullinix

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 639:

DR. C. P. MULLINIX is the oldest practicing physician of Leon, having settled here June 13, 1856. He has been in constant practice here for thirty years. He was born in Putnam County, Indiana, September 7, 1825. His father, DAVID MULLINIX, was a native of North Carolina, and his mother of Tennessee. Both removed to Putnam County when young. After their marriage they removed to Illinois, where the mother died. The father afterward returned to Indiana, and died at Spencer, Owen County, several years later. There were nine children, five sons, and four daughters. Four sons are living, and all practicing physicians – C. P. MULLINIX, of Leon; Dr. M. G., of Spencer, Indiana; Dr. E. N., also at Spencer, and Dr. L. P., at Worthington, Indiana. Dr. P. E. MULLINIX, was also a physician. He came to Leon in 1858, and in the spring of 1859 he went to Pleasanton. On the night of April 6, 1866, while returning from visiting a patient, he was foully murdered, the object being to secure money he was supposed to be in possession of. A man named JOHN W. CRAWFORD was arrested and tried for the murder, but the evidence was not strong enough to convict him. The subject of this sketch was reared on his father’s farm. At the age of twenty-one he entered Asbury Academy, at Greencastle. He was a student at this institution when D. W. VORHEES, since prominently known in national politics, graduated. In 1850 he began a regular course of medical study with Drs. W. BRENTON and ALFRED MOWELY, and also with Dr. DAVID WADE, of Stilesville, Indiana, who was a cousin of B. F. WADE, of national fame. He began the practice of medicine at Whitehill, Owen County. April 13, 1858, he married Miss EMMA LOCKWOOD, a native of Vermont. They have had four children, three of whom are living – Mrs. NELLIE MORGAN, FOSTER C. and EMMA DELL.

NOTE: Dr. Mullinix, who died April 7, 1866, was interred at Leon Cemetery, Leon, Iowa.

Submission by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historical Society Museum, January of 2014

Note by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2014