Joseph Burr Mullen
31 Aug 1842 - 13 Nov 1934
bornMuscatine, Iowa, USA
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
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BiographyCarpenter, rancher, and farmer.Came to Tempe in 1886.
He drove an ox team and walked all the way from Iowa to California, a journey which took four months. He helped suppress Indian raids in California. He came to Arizona by train in the summer of 1886, and took a stage to Phoenix. He settled on a ranch near Tempe, and lived in or near Tempe, or at Oak Creek, until his death; in his younger days he was a carpenter, a trade which gave him his start in the West. For many years he ranged cattle in the Gila River country.
Assistant Postmaster and clerk at the post office,
c1910-1913.
Lived at 118 E. 6th Street (c1910-1913) and 214 E. 6th Street (c1918-1921., '31, -'32
OSB 4; OSB 18
BIO-Mullen
Old Settlers Collection, THM
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Tempe CD, 1906-1921, '31, -'32
Painter Scrapbook, p. 104
Person TypeIndividual
