Sullivan, James L. (1860-1925)

SULLIVAN

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Date: 9/22/2019 at 22:21:39

James Lemuel Sullivan
Jan 22, 1860 - Dec 7, 1925

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.668, Note: J.B. Sullivan should have been J.L. Sullivan)
SULLIVAN & VIRTUE are the proprietors of the only livery, sale and feed stable in Macedonia. It is located on Main Street, near the principal hotel and convenient to the business portion of the town. They keep in stock a good class of driving and road horses, and vehicles of all kinds that are needed in that community. The livery business in this village was inaugurated ten years ago by Mitchell Brothers, on the north side of Main Street, and since then there have been several changes in proprietorship, etc.: Bryant Brothers, Neil Stockton, Charles Murphy, and Mr. Mains – the last of whom sold out to Mr. J. B. SULLIVAN, the senior member of the present firm. The barn, 42 X 80 feet and two stories high, was built in 1882 or 1883 by Charles SMITH.

Mr. SULLIVAN was born near Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, in 1860, son of Samuel and Eliza SULLIVAN. He was brought up on a farm; lived some nine months in Clarke County, Ohio; then came to Boone County, Iowa, and two years afterward, in January 1878 he arrived in Pottawattamie County, first settling in Silver Creek Township. Purchasing a farm, he engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1884 he came to Macedonia, and in 1886 purchased the livery stock already mentioned. He is a popular liveryman and is a genial citizen. He was married in 1884 at Oskaloosa, Iowa, to Miss Ida STEVENS, and they have one child, Florence.