J. P. Mulholland is the senior member of the firm of Mulholland & Nicholas, wholesale and retail dealers in Missouri River ice; office, No. 4 Pearl Street. The business was established in 1861 by R. Guannella & Brother. The present firm succeeded D. F. Eicher in 1882. Their storage-house has a capacity of about 4,500 tons.

Mr. Mulholland was born in Independence, Missouri, August 7, 1845, the son of Samuel B. Mulholland, of Irish ancestry. He was but one year old when his father (the mother having died) removed to Iowa City. He afterward moved to Sioux City, and then to Concord, Nebraska, and later to South Dakota. In September, 1864, they came to Council Bluffs, where our present subject has since made his home. In 1870 he opened a feed store, in this city. Eighteen months afterward he quit it and engaged in various occupations, but principally the ice business, for Dan F. Eicher nine years. He is a self-made man, starting out with by comparatively nothing; and by close application to business he has risen to his present position.

Politically he is non partisan. In society he is a member of lodge No. 146, A. O. U. W. He was married December 25, 1872, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Miss Lucinda Smith, who was born in Jamestown, Ohio, in 1840, and they had two children, Mamie and James B.