GEORGE C. McMULLEN

       This gentleman has for many years been one of the leading representatives of the agricultural interests of Sacramento county, and is also a man of prominence in political circles.  He is now occupying the position of county coroner, and in the discharge of his duties manifests the businesslike promptness and keen discernment that have brought him success in the channels of legitimate trade.  He owes his prosperity not to the inherited wealth of a line of ancient ancestors, but to his industry and resolute purpose, and thus he has justly won the proud American title of self-made man.

       Mr. McMullen was born in Perry county, Ohio, January 27, 1838, and is a son of John McMullen, who was a prosperous farmer and stock-dealer of that locality.  His paternal grandfather, John McMullen, was a probate judge of California in a very early day.  John McMullen, the father of our subject, came to California in 1857 and spent his last days in Solano county, where he died at the age of seventy-seven years.  His wife was in her maidenhood Miss Susan Kemper, who was also a native of Perry county Ohio, and died in Solano county at the age of sixty-nine years.  In their family were seven children, and with the exception of two daughters all are yet living.

       George C. McMullen was a youth of seventeen years when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Missouri, and two years later he came with them to California, the journey being made across the plains with ox teams.  After some years' residence in Solano county he came to Sacramento county, in 1874 and purchased a fine ranch of two hundred and forty acres, known as Lizzie's Vineyard, and situated within a short distance of Brighton. There he carried on business for a number of years, bringing his ranches to a high state of perfection.  He cultivated fruit, with excellent success, and also engaged in trading and dealing extensively in land and in breeding and raising high grades of horses and other stock.  He became the owner of a farm of seventy-six acres, near Brighton, and was numbered among the representatives of the agricultural and horticultural interests of Sacramento county until December 1896 when he established an undertaking business in Sacramento.

       Mr. McMullen is well known in political circles and has earnestly advocated the principles of the Republican party since 1864, when he supported Abraham Lincoln.  At the previous election he voted for Stephen A. Douglas, but through the past thirty-five years he has been unwavering in his allegiance to the political organization that stood by the Union in the Civil War, and is now upholding American interests in our colonial possessions.  In 1884 he was elected supervisor of the county, and in November, 1888, was chosen by popular ballot for the responsible position of sheriff, in which he discharged his duties with promptness and fidelity.  In 1898 he was elected county coroner and is now filling that office.  Frequently called to public office, his election demonstrates the confidence reposed in his fidelity to the public trusts.

       On the 25th of September, 1859, Mr. McMullen was united in marriage to Miss Rhoda E. White, and to them have been born five children:  George Ebner, Irvine H., Lyda A., Winfield E., and Edith.  The family is one of prominence in the community, having many warm friends in the city and county of Sacramento.  Mr. McMullen was formerly a member of the Grange and is highly regarded in agricultural circles.