CAPT. L. F. MULLINS
Captain L. F. Mullins, postmaster of Atlantic, is a native of Kentucky, being born in that State, October 10, 1839. He is a son of Jonathan and Lucy (West) Mullins, the former being a native of Tennessee and the latter of Alabama. The subject of this sketch was reared upon a farm in Kentucky, and when about ten years of age, 1849, went with his parents to Marion county, Iowa, where he remained until July, 1862, when he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-second Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and in the fall of 1863 was mustered in as captain, at New Orleans, which position he held until the close of the war. He served in a number of prominent battles and was wounded May 22, 1863, at the assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi, and again at Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864, spending five months in the hospital at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee. He was mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, in August, 1865, and returned to his home in Marion county, Iowa, where he was married November 5, 1867, to Elizabeth J. Simpson, of Indiana. They have one child--Ulysses S. In 1876, he removed to Cass county, Iowa, and settled in Benton township, where he improved a farm. At the meeting of the Seventeenth General Assembly of Iowa, he was appointed sergeant-at-arms of that body and served one term, after which he returned to his home in Benton Township, and in the fall of 1879, was elected to the office of sheriff of the county and was re-elected to the office again in 1881. On the 5th of June, 1883, he resigned his position as sheriff to fill an appointment as postmaster. He is a man of sterling good qualities and very popular throughout the entire county.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 887.
