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William Carson Mullen
Submitted by
Jean Ann
Shields, great great niece
William Carson Mullan, son of
William Neal and Mary A. Williams Mullan, born
February 15, 1859 at Fort Louden, Franklin County, PA.
He attended the public schools until he was fourteen years of age, and then
began business life as a clerk in the store of John H.
Hoerner at Fort Louden. After four years as clerk he entered high school,
attending two years. In 1881 he came to Fayette County and secured a position in
the store of Robert Carter at Dunbar. In 1881 he
entered the employ of the H.C. Frick Coke Company
at their Broad Ford store, under Thomas Lynch,
general superintendent. In 1883 he was transferred to the Summit store as
manager and payroll clerk of the Summit mines. In 1885 he was placed in charge
of the following mines and coke plants located along the Mt. Pleasant branch of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with headquarters at Broad Ford, PA. Henry Clay,
Frick, Rist, Morgan, Foundry, Eagle, White and Summit, later Sterling was added,
a total of one thousand and fifty one ovens. In August, 1907 he was transferred
to Uniontown and made superintendent of Continental No. 1 mines and coke plant,
with four hundred ovens, employing about four hundred men. He has the confidence
of his employers, as attested by his thirty one years, and is a thoroughly
capable and reliable man. He is a member of the Heptasophs, Royal Arcanum and
the United Brethern church. His wife also belongs to that church. He has served
as school director, is a Democrat, but extremely independent in political
action. He married, Dec. 12, 1900 Minnie May Shupe,
born at Mount Pleasant. Pa daughter of Daniel and Sarah
(Cease) Shupe, Child, Thomas Lynch, born May
12, 1906, at Broad Ford, PA.
Source: Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette
County Pennsylvania by John W. Jordan and James Hadden. Originally printed 1912.
Pages 704–708.
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