(P. 392) H.T. IRWIN, editor of the Neola "Reporter" b. Steubenville, OH, June 1853, son of James and Margaret (Lucas) Irwin, natives of Ireland. James and Margaret Irwin had children H.T. and Elizabeth S. (twins) b. 1853; Elizabeth wife of William B. Graham in Kansas City; and Annie E. residing in Des Moines. H.T. Irwin married in 1878 in Panora, Iowa, to Anna Bowen, daughter of William and Sarah (White) Bowen, natives of Ohio, Mr. Bowen now residing in Nebraska and Mrs Bowen having died July 1890. (Note: I don't know why the Irwins named two of their daughters Elizabeth, but I swear, that's what the book says!) (Page 396) J.P. MULHOLLAND, senior member of Mulholland & Nicholas, wholesale and retail dealers in Missouri River ice, established 1861. J.P. was born in Independence, Missouri, 1845, son of Samuel B. Mulholland of Irish ancestry. Samuel Mulholland, having been widowed, moved the family to Sioux City, Iowa, and then to Concord, Nebraska, and later to South Dakota. In 1864 they came to Council Bluffs. J.P. Mulholland married in 1872 to Lucinda Smith, b. 1840 Jamestown, Ohio; they have two children, Mamie and James B. (Page 410) WILLIAM S. WELLS, b. Brown County, Ohio, 1837, son of John Wells, who was born in New Jersey in 1810, John being the son of Isaiah Wells, who was born in Wales. John Wells reared 7 children: Thomas who lives in Illinois; Samuel who resides in Marion Co Iowa; William S. our subject; Erasmus D. of Madison Co Nebraska; John F. of Madison Co Nebraska; Francis Lewis of Madison Co Nebraska, and David of Sacramento Valley, California. John was married to Rachel Long Wells. William S. Wells, our subject, married in 1864 in Iowa to Mary L. Thompson, who was born in Ohio, daughter of Alexander and Nancy (Wood) Thompson. William and Mary Wells have two children: Harry T. and Nannie A.