TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: MILLER, Michael J.
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Ref: William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
Shawnee County - Part 30
Published in 1883 by A.T. Andreas, Chicago, IL

JOHN R. MULVANE was born in New Comerstown, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 6, 
1835. He is the eldest son of David and Mary Ross Mulvane. His paternal 
grandfather, John Mulvane, a Scotch-Irish farmer, emigrated from North 
Carolina to Ohio, and located near Newcomerstown, sic while the Delaware 
Indians were still there. He was a soldier of the Republic in the war of 
1812. Mary McCune Mulvane, his grandmother, was a daughter of Ensign James 
McCune, a Scotchman, who also was a soldier in the war of 1812. He received 
from the government a patent for 112 acres of land, the reward of military 
service. This farm has remained in the family for three generations, and is 
now owned by the youngest sister of J. R. Mulvane, who also has the old 
parchment patent. The maternal grandfather was Rev. William Ross (a native of 
Cork, Ireland), who was sent from Philadelphia to the wilds of eastern Ohio 
as a Methodist missionary to the Indians. He lived here over forty years, 
when he emigrated to Ohio, Bureau Co., Ill. He died at the ripe age of 
ninety-seven years, having fought the good fight of an earnest disciple of 
our Lord Jesus. The maternal grandmother, Jane Whitaker Ross, daughter of 
James Whitaker, of Westchester County, Pa., is a sister of the Whitakers of 
Philadelphia; James Whitaker of the old Arkwright Cotton Mills, of the firm 
of Seifurt, McManus & Co.; Joseph, of the Phoenixville Iron Works; and George 
P., of Principio furnaces, of Cecil County, Md. David Mulvane, his father, 
was a farmer boy. He worked on the Ohio Canal, handled a wheelbarrow and 
shovel, and drove an ox team, He was afterward a farmer, merchant and 
manufacturer, and died January 8, 1877, in his native town at the age of 
seventy-two, leaving five sons and two daughters. His mother, Mary Ross 
Mulvane, still lives, hale and hearty, in the little village of New 
Comerstown. John R. Mulvane, when a boy, learned the tanner's trade in his 
father's establishment, and in his seventeenth year entered his father's 
general merchandise store, and followed merchandising in the town of his 
nativity till 1865, when he located in Princeton, Bureau Co., Ill., and there 
engaged in merchandising. His health failing, in 1867, he sold out and spent 
parts of 1867 and 1868 with his wife, also in poor health, at Kenosha Water 
Cure, Kenosha, Wis. While here he made the acquaintance of Col. G. W. Veale, 
of Topeka, Kan., and being pleased with the account he received of this 
country, came to Topeka, Kan., in the winter of 1868-69, where he still 
resides. He is president of the Topeka Bank, and connected with several minor 
enterprises, as the Missouri & Kansas Telephone Co., Topeka City Railway, 
etc. With his brothers, Hon. Joab Mulvane and D. A. Mulvane, he is engaged in 
farming and stock-raising. John R. Mulvane was married to Miss Hattie N. 
Freeman, a teacher in the schools of New Comerstown, daughter of Rev. E. W. 
Freeman, a Baptist minister, on July 16, 1857.