HISTORYOF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884. WASHINGTON TWP. PAGE425 Surnames in this biography are: Mullane, Sullivan, Short DR.JOSEPH MULLANE, a successful physician of Greene County, is a native of the city of New York, born in the year 1855. His father was a native of Ireland, but crossed the Atlantic to the United States in about 1840, and began working at the cabinet trade. He was married at Cincinnati to Ellen Sullivan, by Archbishop Purcell, and to them four children were born, all living but one. Mr. Mullane was a man in every sense of the word, and loyal to the cause of his adopted country. In 1861, he volunteered his services to aid in the suppression of the rebellion, and was captured, incarcerated in Andersonville Prison,where, after enduring the agony and sufferings of Southern prison life, for a time, expired, as it were, upon the altar of his country. Dr. Joseph Mullane became a resident of Indianain 1865, and when sixteen years old began reading medicine with Dr. Short, of Springville.He attended one term of lectures at the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio,and one term at the Central Medical College, Indianapolis, Ind., graduating from the last-named institution in 1881. Since 1877, he has been practicing his profession, and at Lyons he has secured a lucrative practice. Dr. Mullane is a progressive citizen, a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity and the Christian Church. DataEntry Volunteer: Diana Flynn