Susan Mulhall

Malinda Loving Vandeveer had a sister, Susan Loving Mulhall, who lived in St. Louis, Missouri. Susan Loving was married to Joseph Mulhall, a prosperous butcher who owned the Mulhall Packing Company. The Mulhalls were financially successful, and they were happy to take Malinda’s orphaned son, Zachariah and raise him as their own. Zachariah, well-accustomed to new environments even by the age of nine, adjusted to life in the Mulhall family well. He began using a new name that would be his for the remainder of his life: Zack Mulhall.

The Mulhalls also had a niece, Mary Agnes Locke (b. 9/1859), who was, like Zack, unofficially adopted by the Mulhall family. While the Mulhalls had a large family, both of their own and by adoption, they spared no expense on the children’s education and rearing.

Both Zack Mulhall and Mary Agnes Locke were sent to Catholic schools in St. Louis, and then, each was sent to South Bend, Indiana to complete their education. Mary Agnes attended St. Mary’s of the Woods Academy where she excelled in the arts and science and became an accomplished pianist. Zack enrolled in the Brothers’ College, now known as Notre Dame University. The young man, however, had little interest in his studies and dropped out of college twice, the second time for good.

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