Charles Morton Mullen
5 Sep 1850 - 27 Dec 1931
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
bornMuscatine, Iowa, USA
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BiographyBlacksmith, farmer, cattle and sheep rancher.Came to Tempe in 1888.
He arrived in Arizona in December of 1875, from San Francisco by way of Ehrenburg. He stopped
first at New River on the Black Canyon Road, and helped build the New River Station in 1877. He did blacksmithing work for the Reno Road, from Phoenix to Globe, and he was also a blacksmith for the Southern branch of the Tempe canal in 1886. In 1888 he took up a ranch south of Tempe. He moved to Mesa in 1894, but returned to Tempe, c1896. He owned blacksmith shops in Mesa and Tempe and a hardware business, the Abeil-Wilbur-Mullen Hardware Co. in the IOOF/Tempe Hardware Building. He owned the south half of the J. B. Mullen ranch near Tempe, and he also operated cattle and sheep ranches in the mountains. In most of his business enterprises, he was associated with George H. Wilbur. In 1906 the Mullen interests in and around Mesa were disposed of and he bought the ranch just east of Tempe, where he and his family resided until his death.
Shareholder in the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company, and was a member of the Board in 1913. He was also president of the Tempe Pumping Co., c1914-1916. With George H. Wilbur, he owned SE4 NE4 section 23 (40 acres), and with Florence Litchfield, owned SE4 section 36 (150 acres), in 1924. He served a term as Mayor of Mesa, Arizona.
He was a member of the Tempe Odd Fellows Lodge for sixty years.
Lived on Mesa-Tempe Road in 1924.
OSB 4; OSB 40
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Old Settlers Collection, THM
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
TH-231
Tempe CD, 1899-1919
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1924
Painter Scrapbook
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