Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-04-22
Deserved Tribute to One OF Our
Most Successful and Pro-
gressive Citizens,
This Country Is Dotted over
With Samples of His Mon
ument Building.
BORN IN COUNTY CAVAN, IRELAND


called. is one of our leading citizens. lie
has devoted himself solely to business
and home life, though he has always
been jealous in quiet way in all IRISH
American affairs. Col. Muldoon was one
of the orieinators of the Irish-Anerican
Society of this city and was its first Pres
ident. His genial nature and progress
siveness have given him host OF friends
at home and abroad, as indicated by the
following from the indianapolis ZEN
Magazine, which we take pleasure III
publishing Il
This issue of the Pen Magazine is
adorned with an excellent portrait OF Col.
M. M. Muldoon, of Louisville, KY, |
whose professional, business and social
standing singles him out for large share
of public recognition. 1t is not OF MS
choice nor is it to his liking to be person
ally mentioned in the public prints. He
would rather hide his personality as much
as possible fact which may be IN
ferred from his emitting his business
ENTERPRISE as the ''Muldoon Monument
Company" when in fact there is no
company or partnership, he himself
being. to use a phrase, "the whole
thing" But so extensive and hlgh-class
is his business, and so remarkable has
been his success that, of necessity, both
himself and his calling have become
shining mark s. inviting the pens OF ed
itors and sketch writers everywhere.
The spacious headquarters OF Col.
Muldoon's business are at 322, 324, $40
and 1913 West Green street, Louisville,
Ky. Although stocked with an extensive
array of samples of his finished work IN
statuary, sculpture and monuments, IT IN
no sense is intended to represent the
vastness of the enterprise or the nigh
degree of art to which he has attained.
1t is rather intended to be the home Of
fee for the designing department and
for the execution of the smaller sculp-
lures and statuary and the private ofhce
of Mr.. Muldoon himself. At the quar-
ries in the East and in Italy where he has
studios at Carraro, and to which country
he has iourneyed more than forty times,
is where the greater part of the heavy
and finer work is done. BY the heavy
work, etc, is meant the great monument
shafts and bases and the heroic statues
which very often must be hewn out OF
one huge block of granite or marble as
was the case with the roof-stone OF the
beautiful Mackay mausoleum recently
erected by Col. Muldoon in Greenwood
cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. The mauso-
leum is the finest, the most artistic and
intellectually perfect, and the most ex-
pensive private memorial in America.
1t is of granite, and its roof-stone, above
referred to, is the largest solid piece OF
granite ever quarried in the United States,
il being twenty feet six inches square.
The whole country is dotted over
with samples Of Col. Muldoon's genius
and enterprise in sculpture, statuary and
mausoleum and monument building. The
largest and most perfectly designed ana
constructed of the States and Soldiers
monuments both North and South, the
monuments and mausoleums OF public
men and of private citizens OF note, arethe
work of the gentleman here mentioned
and attest his great skill and enterprise,
particularly during the past forty years.
Like the Temple builders of Judea, like
the beautifiers of ancient Babylon and
the ambitious builders of the Pyramids
ne goes to every cline for his material,
and controls the master minds and the
master hands Of two continents in the
designing and execution OF his great
works. His name has therefore become
inseparably linked with those beautiful,
artistic mementos that so eloquently ex-
press the patriotic sentiments and appre-
citation of the American people.
Col. Muldoon was born in the County
Cavan, Ireland, in 1886. When boy OF
thirteen he started out to seek his for
tune, which, of course, necessitated his
leaving his native land, for Britain has
DESTROYED the future of every lrishman
who does not forswear himself and his
country. The boys quest was trying at
times, but glints of sunshine continued
at intervals to light up his way. He
stumbled, or was led by Providence, into
his present calling nearly fifty years
ago, beginning away down at the very
bottom. The story, as the writer has
heard it from an Ohio gentleman, OF Col
Muldoon's climbing to the very top,
where we now find him, would make
very thrilling narrative, but would be out
of place in this passing mention. 1t may
also be foreign to this sketch to mention
his other business interests, but our Ken
lucky neighbors might regard it as a
slight we're we not to state that Col. Null
doom is a member of the Executive
Board, the Board of Control and the
r1asd of Directors of the Mutual Lie