1882 History of Linn County, Missouri

BIOGRAPHY

WILLIAM H. MELLON                                                     Grantsville Township, page 862

    Mr. Mellon is a native of County Antrim, Ireland, where he was born in April, 1829.  He was the first son of a family of seven children.  His father was Felix Mellon, born in 1803, and still living a paver and stonecutter.  The mother of Mr. H. was Mary (Gilmore) Mellon, who was born in 1804, and died in 1838.  Mr. Mellon was educated in the parish schools of his native county, which he attended from the age of seven years until he was seventeen; then he engaged in different kinds of labor peculiar to his country.  For two years he worked as a linen-warper.  In 1849 he left the Emerald Isle and removed to Canada.  Here he learned blacksmithing, at which trade he worked in the town of Pickering for eight years, and in the town of West McGilvery until 1867.  In 1864 he married Margaret Fike, a native of Pickering, Canada.  They had ten children, six of whom are living.  Mrs. Mellon died June 23, 1873, and October 17, 1874, Mr. M. was again married to Mary E. Palmer, of Spencer county, Indiana daughter of Jesse and Susan E. (Allen) Spratlin, born July 5, 1848.  Mr. and Mrs. Spratlin were both natives of Tennessee, the former born in 1816 and Mrs. S. in 1821; they are both yet living.  Mr. and Mrs. Mellon are the parents of three children, two girls an one boy, all living.  In 1867, Mr. Mellon came to Linn county, where he has resided ever since, a portion of the time in Grantsville.  In 1870 he purchased the farm on which he now lives.  For three times he has been elected and once appointed to the office of justice of the peace, which office he has filled acceptably to all.  By his industry and goo management he has secured for himself a comfortable home in which he lives, enjoying the respect and esteem of all who know him. 

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