John S. Mulhall
John S. Mulhall, the second of seven children, and the eldest son of James and Catherine (Solender) Mulhall, was born in Cumberland County, Penn., October 8, 1818. James Mulhall was also a native of Cumberland County, a son of Thomas Mulhall, who came from Dublin, Ireland, to America, when eighteen years of age, and lived in Cumberland County, Penn., where he was married and reared a family of ten children. James learned the tailor's trade of his father, but after his marriage followed farming, and in 1832 moved to Millbrook, Wayne Co., Ohio, where he was for a time employed at days' work, and then entered an eighty-acre farm, near the center of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1878, when he was aged eighty-two years; his widow died in 1880, aged eighty-six years.
John S. Mulhall was but fourteen years of age when his parents moved to Ohio. He worked on the farm with his father in his youth, and attended the common schools. He learned the cooper's trade, which he followed five years, and then turned his attention to farming, buying forty acres of land. He has been successful in this vocation, and has now 160 acres, all under cultivation, with good building improvements, which he has acquired by years of toil and economy. Mr. Mulhall has held the office of township treasurer four years, and is a trust-worthy servant of the township; in politics he affiliates with the Republican party. He was married in 1843 to Maria, daughter of Leonard and Catherine (Chesround) Everly, and they have four children: Rhoda, Theresa, Leonard F. and J.H. Mr. and Mrs. Mulhall are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889