McMullen, Solomon

MCMULLEN

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Date: 10/11/2006 at 01:27:17

Solomon McMullen

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.116, Hazel Dell Twp.)
Solomon McMullen, farmer, P. O. Crescent City, was born in Ohio June 6, 1832, son of William and Catharine (Myers) McMullen; he, born in Virginia March 15, 1783, died October 8, 1878, was a farmer; she was born in Ohio February 10, 1776, and died November 10, 1848, in Missouri, near Springfield; they had eleven children, six of whom were boys and five girls. When our subject was nine years of age, he removed with his parents to Lawrence County, Mo. After remaining there eleven years, they emigrated to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in 1852. There the father died, and there our subject has since been employed in farming. Mr. McMullen has a farm of about four hundred acres, a good portion of which is timber; He grows the ordinary farm crops, and raises considerable stock. Mr. McMullen was married in Iowa, Decmeber 2, 1852, to Ellen Dunkle, born in Ohio March 10, 1835, daughter of William and Mary (McMullen) Dunkle; he born, in Virginia January 10, 1781, died December 30, 1873; she born in Ohio January 20, 1777, died September 20, 1831. Mr. and Mrs. McMullen have been blessed with six children - Mary Catharine, born September 30, 1853; Amanda Jane, December 30, 1855; John William,, October 16, 1859; Daniel Boone, June 3, 1863; Anna Laura, September 18, 1867; and Reuben Lee, January 18, 1876. Mr. McMullen is a Democrat, but believes in home protection.