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a prominent figure in the life of this community.
He served in several important
offices here, among which should be
included that of selectman and president
of the district sewer board. When the
Enfield Electric Light Company organized
he was its vice-president. He married
Frances Browne, of Thompsonville,
Connecticut, at Thompsonville, April 19,
1872, and among their children was Wil-
liam Joseph Mulligan, of this sketch.
Born June 2, 1881, at Thompsonville,
Connecticut, William Joseph Mulligan
has made this place his home during prac-
tically his entire life. As a child he
attended (first) the Parochial schools
connected with St. Patrick's Catholic
Church and later the public schools of the
town. After studying for a time at the
Enfield High School, he attended Williston
Seminary at Easthampton, Massachusetts,
from which he was graduated
in 1901, having been prepared there for
a course in college. He had in the mean-
time determined upon the law as a profession
and with this object in view matriculated
at the law school connected
with Yale University. Completing his
studies at Yale in 1904, he at once was
admitted to the bar of Hartford county
and opened an office and engaged in the
general practice of his profession in
August of that year. In this he has pros-
pered highly, and in February, 1916,
opened an office in Hartford, where by
attendance to the business intrusted to
him he made friends and secured clients.
Although Mr. Mulligan has devoted his
attention principally to the law he has
nevertheless been interested in several
other departments of the city's life and
has come to hold a prominent position in
its business and financial circles. In the
year 1908 he organized The Advance
Printing and Publishing Company, and
since then he has held the double office of
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secretary-treasurer therein as well as a
membership on its board of directors. He
has also become associated with the pub-
lic affairs of the community and has held
the office of prosecuting attorney in
Thompsonville for six years. He has
been counsel for the town for several
terms, and is now a director of the State
Chamber of Commerce. He is a Republi-
can in politics and is already regarded as
a leader in the State organization of that
party. Mr. Mulligan is a well-known figure
in the social life of Thompsonville and
and is a very prominent member of the
Knights of Columbus, having been State
deputy for Connecticut for six terms and
now holds the office of supreme director
of the National Organization. He is also
a member of the Enfield Country Club,
the Hartford Club, Connecticut Editorial
Association, the American Bar Associa-
tion, and the Connecticut State Bar Association.
Mr. Mulligan has interested him-
self in a most public-spirited manner with
the general life of the community, and
indeed few men have done more than he
to promote its material interests. Mr.
Mulligan is an active worker in the Red
Cross and has given many addresses
throughout the State in connection with
the State Council of Defense. For the
benefit of the soldiers and sailors he has
charge of raising $200,000.00 in Connecticut
for the War Work being carried on
by the Knights of Columbus. In this
work he has also helped in other States
from Vermont to Oklahoma. In addition
to Mr. Mulligan's activity in Connecticut
in relation with the War Work, he was
signally honored by being appointed rep-
resentative of the board of directors of
the Supreme Council of the Knights of
Columbus to go to France for the purpose
of purchasing buildings at three
ports of entry and at Paris, as well as
purchasing equipment and supplies for