The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-04-29
AIRY MULDOON OF TROY, NEW
YORK, SEARCHING FOR a
MISSING RELATIVE
ROMANCE OF LONG AGO
Short Chapter From the Story of a
Woman's Search Far and
Wide.

Mary Muldoon OF troy, New YORK,
searching for her brother who once
sided in Baraboo. He is now Is
,ars old if living and is thought
be in west.
lie is married and had been in busi-
SIS in Wisconsin the last heard of
m. Many years ago Charles Muldoon
.rned ...the trade of machinist and
lrriage maker and for time he work.
with his brother at Montpelier, Vt.
the meantime Mary Muldoon was
arried to a railroad man. Forty
lree years ago Mary Muldoon's hus-
md was killed in railroad wreck at
pe time President Lincoln's body lie
state at Albany Mary Mul looms
lsband was conductor on one of the
aims that brought hundreds of peo-
le to Albany and while engaged in his
ork he met with an accident. Later
wife took upsher residence in Troy.
or time she engaged in the millinery
ade and was occupied in that work
Boston, Philadelphia, New York
Id other places. Her brother, Charles
I'd gone west and his letters were lost
mislaid and Mary, his favorite sister
owing from city to city in pursuit of
er work lost track altogether of
1arles and in that way they became
'parated and fully thirty years have
apsed since they exchanged letters.
lie relates in the Troy Telegram:
Came to Baraboo.
My recollections of Charles are
4ther uncertain but [ know for a
1mber of years he was engaged in !
elling pool and billiard tables. Later !
: engaged in the jewelry business.
lie would go to town, open a store,
Rspose of his stock and then move on
o some other town. Wisconsin was
is home. He owned some real estate
t Hammond in Wisconsin and re-
eived letters from him written on the
tationary from hotels at Prairie du
Theme and from Hammond and from
aCrosse. Intact Judging from his
etters he must have been Well-known !
o travelling men and to hotel keepers
d Wisconsin thirty years ago. His
lome for many years was at Baraboo,
Wisconsin. | have communicated with
,ersons in Baraboo requesting infor-
nation of him but invariably my let
ers resulted in securing no informa
ion of the party of whom | was in
earch. The fact that he had owned
cal estate at Hammond, Wisconsin
ught to make it possible to locate
lim," she continued.
Eyes, Charles was married. His
marriage was quite romance, too, in
is way"
"About thirty years ago he had a
lister in Albany. She was very sick
md Charles had been sent for to come
IN. He sent word that he would start
It once. On the way to Albany the
rain on which he was riding, when
1ear Chicago was wrecked.
In Railroad Wreck
'It was terrible smash up and sew
eral persons were injured. Charles
Muldoon was one who was not greatly
injured and he with others started in
to assist the railroad men in caring for
the injured. Charles had noticed that
q woman and a child she had with her,
were in the worst of the wreck. He
started to search for them when the
child came running towards him. The
girl was perhaps Is or II years of age
and she begged my brother to help her
"Do not leave u.s." cried the child.
4'Save my mother"
Charles Muldoon went to the rescue.
He managed to extricate her from a
mass of wreckage and the woman and
her daughter were taken to hotel and
cared for. In this way Charles Null
doom became acquainted with the wo-
man and her daughter. He learned
they were residents of Baraboo, and
that the girls father was employed in
some official position at Washington
and the girl and her mother were on
their way to visit at the nations capi
tol when their train was wrecked. Mul
doom often visited at the home of these
people at Baraboo and finally after sew
eral years had elapsed he married tn,
girl although he was greatly her semi