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a past Vice-President of the Hamilton Association, died February 

 the 2ist, 1899. Dr. Mullin was born June loth, 1835, in the City of 

 New York, U. S., but his parents, in his early childhood, removed to 

 Upper Canada, and settled on an uncleared farm in the vicinity of 

 Hamilton. His early youth was spent on his father's farm, and after 

 the necessary preparatory training at the common and grammar 

 schools of that day, it was decided that he should study medicine 

 under the well known Dr. Rolph. That decision was carried into 

 effect, and young Mullin, under Dr. Rolph's tuition, graduated in 

 medicine at Victoria University College in 1859, and the next year 

 became a licentiate of the Ontario Medical faculty. After profes- 

 sional hospital experience in New York, he entered on the practice 

 of medicine in Hamilton, where he had a large clientage, and where 

 he died. For nearly thirty years he was an active medical advisor 

 of the Canada Life Assurance Company, a position of trust and re- 

 sponsibility. 



In his youth Dr. Mullin imbibed a love for literature, which 

 nothing in after years impaired, but which waxed fresher and more 

 vigorous to the end of life. Assiduously devoted to the exacting 

 duties of his profession, he strove to keep abreast of the biological 

 discoveries of the time, and watched with keenness those modern 

 experiments which have thrown light on the life history of micro- 

 scopic organisms. 



Dr. Mullin was endowed with an acute intellect, and a sincere 

 sympathetic nature which endeared him to a large circle of friends. 

 Tolerant of the opinions of others, he was not indifferent to main- 

 tenance of his own convictions, which by tongue and pen he had the 

 faculty to expound and defend with fluency, precision, and grace. 



