Mullikin, John

MULLIKIN, DARNELL, HEAD, LATCHEM, MILLER

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Date: 2/2/2013 at 12:48:56

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

MULLIKIN, JOHN—Jackson Twp—pg 658. Born in Fleming county, Kentucky, on the 24th day of May, 1827. Lived on a farm until he was seven years old, when he moved into town, and lived and worked with a brother-in-law in a tannery until he was eighteen years old. He then bought one-half interest in the tannery, and continued in the tanning business about two years. He then engaged in the manufacture of saddles and harness, and has continued in that business ever since, except one year he was engaged in a grocery and provision store in Lafayette, Ind. Was married on the 27th day of January, 1848, at Danville, Ind., to Mrs. Amelia A. Darnell. Has a family of three children: Mary L. (now Mrs. Mahlon Head), Serena J. (now Mrs. A.R. Latchem) and Julia A. (now Mrs. Henry L. Miller). Mr. Mullikin emigrated from Indiana to Iowa in the fall of 1858, and located at Montezuma, where he engaged in the manufacture and sale of saddles and harness, and is still in the same business, having the only saddle and harness manufactory in the town.