Mr. Mullin was born on the 5th of December, 1833, in Warren County, Ohio. His father, Noah Mullin, is a native of the same State and county; as of English-Irish descent, and was on the 10th of January, 1804. When thirty years old, he (Noah, emigrated to Carroll County, and locating on the now valuable farm of his son, Lewis Mullin (at that date numbering 320 acres and uncleared of timber); remained there until 1844, whence he removed to the little town of Rockfield, where he yet resides, at the venerable age of seventy-eight years. By his mother, Margaret (Crosby) Mullin, William C. is of German-Irish extraction, his mother’s relatives hailing from Pennsylvania.
William C. Mullin accompanied his father in his various changes of locations, and remained with him until the tenth year of the latter’s residence in Rockfield, leaving home at this date to return to his father’s farm, after his marriage on the 16th of March, 1854, with Miss Elizabeth Guiliford, a native of Juniata County, Penn. Two children – Lewis N. and Hannah M. (wife of Edward Kennedy), were the fruits of this marriage. The death of Hannah M. Kennedy occurred on the 1st of May, 1881. On the 15th day of January, 1872, after a union of less than a score of years, yet doubtless a union rich in domestic happiness, Mrs. Mullin passed to the eternal world.
September 17, 1877, Mr. Mullin re-married, his second wife, whose maiden name was Kendall, being at the time of this union the widow of Samuel W. Guiliford. Soon after this marriage, he left the Mullin homestead (having, previous to the death of his first wife, sold his one-half interest in that farm to his brother, Lewis), and removed to the farm adjoining it on the east side, where he still resides. The mother, Lucinda (Buskirk) Kendall of his second wife, came to Carroll County from Jackson County, Ind., about forty-seven years ago, she having come to the latter county from Kentucky. Mrs. Mullin had two uncles who were martyrs to the Union cause in the war of the rebellion. In religion is a Universalist, while her husband is a member of the Methodist Church.
In politics, Mr. Mullin is a supporter of the principles of the Democratic party, though he asserts himself to be no politician, believing in the good of the whole people.
Following in the wake of his worthy progenitors, he has never deserted the farm, feeling that it furnishes a livelihood conducive to health and profitable to the proprietor who mixes with his manual labor in plentiful supply of brains, as does the subject this sketch. At present, Mr. Mullin and his son, whose home is near by, own and control together 276 acres of excellent land. Another year and Mr. Mullin will have compassed his half century of life. Vigorous and healthy, with the cares of life resting lightly on his shoulders, he chances for living the allotted threescore years and ten are excellent indeed.
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