A. Mullinix, a physician of Rosendale, Andrew County, Mo., was born one and a half miles south from Rosendale in 1840. He is the second of four children born to G. W. and Rhoda (Hurst) Mullinix. The father was born in Putnam County, Ind., in 1821, and is the son of Elisha Mullinix, a native of South Carolina. He was one of the pioneers of Andrew County, Mo., having immigrated here in 1838. In 1871 he removed to Kansas, where he practices law at present. The mother was also born in Putnam County, Ind., in 1819, and was the daughter of Abram Hurst, who removed to Andrew County, Mo., and left a large family. Our subject spent his youth on the farm, and acquired a limited education in the country schools. He began the study of medicine in 1867, at New Hartford, Ill., under Dr. J. W. Slade. In 1868-69 he attended the Iowa State University at Keokuk, graduation in 1874, in both medicine and surgery. He then returned to Andrew County, Mo., since which time he has practiced his profession. In 1861 he enlisted in the Federal army, joining the Eighth Regiment of Illinois Infantry, with which he served three months. In September of the same year he re-enlisted in the Fifth Regiment of Missouri Infantry and served six months, but in August, 1862, joined the Ninety-ninth Regiment of Illinois Infantry, and served until the close of the war, being mustered out in August, 1865, having been engaged in nineteen hard-fought battles. He was wounded for different times. In the spring of 1866 he crossed the plains to Montana, where he remained eighteen months. He was married in 1868 to Georgina Scott, who was born in Brown County, Ill., in 1849, and is the daughter of G. W. Scott. They have three children living, and one dead.
Source: History of Andrew and DeKalb Counties, Missouri (St. Louis and Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co. 1888), p. 532.