John Kernan Mullen, a young Irish immigrant, left school at age 14 to work in a flour mill and wound up with a multi-million dollar milling empire. Mullen's Colorado Grain Elevator and Hungarian Flour empires owned wheat fields, grain elevators and flour mills throughout the Rockies. John Kernan Mullen was one of Colorado's greatest benefactors, and Mullen High School in Denver is named for him. Also named for him is the Mullen Library at Catholic University in Washington D.C. One of the recipients of his munificence was the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, seat of the Archbishop.
He married Catherine Theresa Smith on October 12, 1874 and together they had five daughters: Ella Theresa, May Rose, Katherine Smith, Frances Edith and Anne, who only lived to be age 4. His daughters married and had families, but his sons-in-law found it hard to break through "Mr. Mullen's" reserve and to live up to his high expectations. All are buried in the Mullen plot at Mt. Olivet.
He married Catherine Theresa Smith on October 12, 1874 and together they had five daughters: Ella Theresa, May Rose, Katherine Smith, Frances Edith and Anne, who only lived to be age 4. His daughters married and had families, but his sons-in-law found it hard to break through "Mr. Mullen's" reserve and to live up to his high expectations. All are buried in the Mullen plot at Mt. Olivet.
John Kernan Mullen, a young Irish immigrant, left school at age 14 to work in a flour mill and wound up with a multi-million dollar milling empire. Mullen's Colorado Grain Elevator and Hungarian Flour empires owned wheat fields, grain elevators and flour mills throughout the Rockies. John Kernan Mullen was one of Colorado's greatest benefactors, and Mullen High School in Denver is named for him. Also named for him is the Mullen Library at Catholic University in Washington D.C. One of the recipients of his munificence was the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, seat of the Archbishop.
He married Catherine Theresa Smith on October 12, 1874 and together they had five daughters: Ella Theresa, May Rose, Katherine Smith, Frances Edith and Anne, who only lived to be age 4. His daughters married and had families, but his sons-in-law found it hard to break through "Mr. Mullen's" reserve and to live up to his high expectations. All are buried in the Mullen plot at Mt. Olivet.
He married Catherine Theresa Smith on October 12, 1874 and together they had five daughters: Ella Theresa, May Rose, Katherine Smith, Frances Edith and Anne, who only lived to be age 4. His daughters married and had families, but his sons-in-law found it hard to break through "Mr. Mullen's" reserve and to live up to his high expectations. All are buried in the Mullen plot at Mt. Olivet.
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