Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and
Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co.,
Publishers, 1884, pp.584-585. Unknown County

MAJ. JAMES B. MULKY, a native of Indiana, was born October 4, 1827, in
Crawford County.  His parents, James and Elizabeth (Wyman) Mulky, natives
of Kentucky, were married in 1815, and located on a farm in Crawford
County, Ind., remaining until 1834, when they removed to a farm in
Washington Township, Monroe County.  The father's death occurred in
September, 1851; the mother died in June, 1867.  James B. Mulky was the
second son and fifth child in the family.  He was reared in Monroe County,
where he attended subscription schools, and when he was sixteen years of
age he went to a school near Milltown, Ind. (to learn English grammar),
where he remained for five months.  In May, 1844, he began teaching
subscription schools in Owen County, continuing for nine months.  In the
January following, he entered the State University and remained until
October, when he went to Georgetown, Ind., and taught school for some
time.  He then enlisted in Company A, Second Regiment, Spencer Grays, of
New Albany, for the Mexican War, and served one year. In July 1847, he
received his discharge and returned home, where he began teaching again in
Monroe County, and three months later he went to Spencer and taught in the
old County Seminary for six months.  He went thence to Knoxville, Marion
County; returning thence to Spencer, he took charge of his father's farm. 
In 1852, he came to Bloomington, and entered the drug business, then
farmed a while; afterward, returning to Bloomington, he entered the Law
Department in the State University, when he graduated.  He then formed a
partnership with the Hon. James Hughes, in the regular practice, and one
year later, Mr. Hughes being appointed Judge of the Court of Claims at
Washington City, he formed a partnership with Prof. John Young, with whom
he continued for one year.  In July, 1861, he was commissiioned Colonel of
the Indiana Legion, and in May, 1862, he was appointed Major in the
Fifty-fifth Indiana Volunteers.  In February, 1865, he was appointed
Provost Marshal of Third Indiana District and served ten months.  He then
returned to Bloomington, entered the regular practice, and is at present
so engaged, doing a lucrative business, and is considered one of Monroe
County's best practioners.  On May 31, 1853, he was married to Mary J.
Coffey, of Monroe County.  They have had six children, three of whom are
living - Horace B., James O. and Frank L.  Maj. Mulky is a member of the
A. F. & A. M., and is politically a Republican, but was originally a Whig,
and he and wife are members of the Methodist Church.

Mulky Wyman Hughes Young Coffey
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Crawford-IN Washington-Monroe-IN Owen-IN Spencer-IN Knoxville-Marion-IN

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