SULLIVAN, John William

Adams County Free Press, Corning, Iowa May 1923 Obituary - Many of our older residents will remember John W. Sullivan, son of the late Charles Sullivan of Mercer township, and they will regret to read the following notice of his death taken from a Prescott, Arizona, newspaper that was sent to his brother, Charles Sullivan of Corning. The account of the death of the former Corning resident follows: "John W. Sullivan, proprietor of the Kentucky pool hall on South Montezuma Street, succubmmed at 2:27 this, owning to an attack of pneumonia from which he had been suffering for the last two weeks. Mr. Sullivan, who will be mourned by a large number of the poor in this city, aided innumerable times by him, is survived by seven children, four boys and three girls, one boy being of this city. One of his daughters is expected to arrive from Nevada late this afternoon. Mr Sullivan had been in business in this city since 1916, coming here from the east. He was born in Corning, Iowa in 1861 and was 62 years of age. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. ------------------- John Sullivan (1861 - 1923) John 'Big Jack' William Sullivan (Son of Charles Sullivan) John William Sullivan was born in 1861m Dubuque County, Iowa. He moved to Adams County, Iowa, with his parents, Charles Sullivan and Margaret Geary in 1875. He married Miss Margaret Sullivan who was born in 1867 in New York and died in 1908 or 1909 in Pueblo, Colorado. They had 10 children. After Mrs. Sullivan's death, the younger children were placed in an orphanage in Pueblo and John Sullivan lived and worked for awhile in Carl, Nevada. (According to the obituary of his father dated March 15, 1912). He and his children moved to Prescott, Arizona in 1916 where he was proprietor of a pool hall called Kentucky Saloon and Billiards on the famous Whiskey Row. He died May 3, 1923 in Prescott, Arizona. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery at Prescott, Arizona, Section D, Lot 73, Grave C, next to his sons, William and Joseph Sullivan. John Sullivan was the owner of the 'Kentucky Pool Hall', located at 168 So. Montezuma Street, Prescott, Arizona in 1922 and 1923. This bar was mentioned in Gail Gardner's poem, 'Tie A Knot In The Devils Tail'. A photograph of the 'Kentucky Pool Hall' can be found in the second edition of Gail Gardner's book. This article was sent to me with a note: Found in a book. So the exact place that this article was found is not known.