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LUCIUS D. MULLEN was born in Noble county, Ind., February 3, 1844. His parents, David and Mary (Wolfe) Mullen, came from Pennsylvania and located in northeastern Indiana in 1843. The senior Mullen was a blacksmith by trade, and an honest, industrious man. He died in 1851, and was followed by his wife in 1882. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and were earnest christian people. Lucius D. Mullen, the subject of this sketch, was left an orphan when a small boy, and has made his own way through life unaided since he was nine years old. Though young he was honest and industrious, and always found employment. In 1866 he went to Gratiot county, Mich., where he was employed for three years in a woolen mill, and in 1869 came to Cass county, Nebr., and took a homestead. The country was quite new, and he was among the first to settle in the western part of the county. He remained there eight years, and then concluded that he could better his condition by going to York county, where he accordingly located, and purchased a piece of land, but worked on the B. & M. R. R. most of the time during the seven years he was there.

The time of Mr. Mullen’s arrival in Phelps county was in the spring of 1884; consequently, he is not regarded an early settler, although the country has been developed wonderfully since he located here. He purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which he is improving rapidly, and from which he has harvested good crops since he began to cultivate it.

Mr. Mullen was married, August 22, 1872, to Miss Mary E. Logan, who is a native of Ohio, born June 24, 1851. To this union have been born six children, viz. — Lafayette, born June 17, 1873; John, born March 22, 1877; Orphia, born January 18, 1881; Thomas, born March 15, 1883 (deceased), and Jesse, born May 22, 1885.

As Mr. Mullen was a soldier in the late Civil war it would not be out of place to call the reader’s attention to some of the main features of his military experience. He enlisted October 14, 1862, in the First Indiana cavalry, and his first experience in battle was at Vicksburg, and later he was in an engagement at Fort Cotton, on the Yazoo river, in Mississippi. On the fourth of July, 1863, he was in a hot skirmish at Helena, Ark., and was also present at the capture of Little Rock, Ark. Some of the principal encounters following this were Duvaull’s bluffs, Clarington, Columbia, Tenn.; Franklin, and the two days at Nashville. He was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., in June, 1864.