Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

RORY O. MULLIGAN, one of the rising young lawyers of Allen County, Ky., 
was born in Scottsville, June 5, 1860.  He is the only son of Gilbert M. 
and Lucy Douglas (Tate) Mulligan, who were married in Todd County, Ky., 
in 1867. [this is as shown].  Gilbert Marshall Mulligan was a lawyer, 
and commanded an extensive practice in Warren and Allen Counties.  In 
1861 he was made a captain of the Ninth Kentucky Infantry, in which he 
served one year.  As an attorney at law he was very successful; he is 
remembered by all who knew him as a generous and noble-minded citizen, 
whose every thought in life seemed to be for the welfare of his friends; 
his death occurred August 11, 1877.  Lucy Douglas (Tate) Mulligan is a 
lady of rare attainments and the "surviving representative of the family 
tree."  She is the daughter of William Tate, who was of Scotch and 
French extraction.  Her mother, Ann L. (New) Tate, was of English 
extraction, and a daughter of Anthony New, a native American and 
resident of Todd County, Ky.  The ancestral mansion built by him in Todd 
County, in the middle of the eighteenth century, is yet standing.  James 
Crawford Mulligan, the father of Gilbert M., was born in the year 1795.  
He was a native of the parish of Seapatrick, County Down, Ireland.  He 
came to America in 1816, and located in Chambersburg, Penn., where he 
was employed as an attorney's clerk for some time; he subsequently 
removed to Bowling Green, in Warren County, where he married Mary Fisher 
Neal, in 1820, and to them were born eleven children - five of whom are 
yet living, viz.:  Sarah L., Mary A (Sheppard), Harriet A. (Kiger), 
Thomas C. and Melissa A. (Rutland).  James Crawford Mulligan is 
remembered by those who knew him as "one of nature's noblemen."  He was 
eminent as a man of business facilities, and generous to a fault.  
During his official career he held the office of circuit court clerk for 
ten years, and for twenty years he was county court clerk, master 
commissioner and trustee of the jury fund.  He died in Scottsville 
September 29, 1859; he was a son of Gilbert and Jane Mulligan, natives 
of Ireland and Scotland, respectively.  Rory O. Mulligan in early life 
had excellent facilities for obtaining a good education, which he 
improved so well that at the age of seventeen he had become proficient 
in the English classics and in the higher mathematics, and made 
considerable progress in Latin.  At the age of nineteen he began to read 
law, and sixteen months later entered Vanderbilt University at 
Nashville, where he remained five months; afterward took the law course 
in Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn., where he graduated in 1881; 
since that time he has been engaged in the practice of the law at 
Scottsville, Ky.

Mulligan Tate New Neal Sheppard Kiger Rutland
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Todd-KY Bowling_Green-Warren-KY Seapatrick-Down-Ireland PA Scotland 
Nashville-Davidson-TN

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