- MICHAEL MULLOOLY, who was for many years a successful farmer
of Rock county,
- Wisconsin, was a native of Galway, Ireland. When about ten
years old he came to the United States with his parents and settled
at Racine, Wis. There he lived a number of years and received
his education in the public schools. Thence he removed with
his mother to Clinton township, Rock county, where they bought
forty acres of land and made a home. He carried on general farming
and stock raising to a limited extent and did his full share
in developing the resources of his section, which he saw transformed
from a wilderness to a land of fertile farms and beautiful homes.
- Mr. MULLOOLY met a tragic death on March 3, 1881, when but
forty-four years old. Going
- on foot to the village of Sharon during a severe storm to
get medicine for a sick child, he attempted to return home, but
lost his way in the blinding storm and perished from exposure,
his body being found a few days later. He was a devout member
of the Catholic church and in politics a Democrat, and as a citizen
was universally esteemed for his many virtues.
- Mr. MULLOOLY married Miss Bridget TIGUE, who came with her
parents from Ireland when
- eleven years old and settled at Providence, R.I., whence
the family moved to Rock county, Wisconsin. Mrs. MULLOOLY since
the death of her husband has continued to live on the home farm
with her sons, having added forty acres to the original purchase
and improved it with a new and substantial modern farm house
and other improvements.
- Of seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. MULLOOLY all except
the eldest were born in Rock
- county; the eldest, Henry, is a mining engineer and lives
in Colorado; Annie, the second child, is forewoman in the Phelps
Infant Shoe Factory at Louisiana, Mo.; the third, James, lives
at home; John, the fourth, who is a machinist in the employ of
the McCormick Reaper Company, making his headquarters in Chicago,
but now living at home, married Miss Rose, daughter of Mr. Henry
WRIGHT, a stone mason by occupation, late of Clinton, Wis., where
his widow now (1907) resides. They had one child, who died when
eighteen months old, and the wife died at Clinton in 1902. The
fifth child, Julia, is married to Mr. Edward CASEY, of St. Louis,
Mo., and has one child, Leo; Kate, the sixth child, and Leo,
the youngest, live on the home place with their mother.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wis." by William Fiske
Brown, (c)1908, pp. 992-993.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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