Thanks to Richard Sullivan for this material. Richard notes that the general suggestion of wild and uncivil conduct may reflect that the articles in the local press may have been aimed to meet the prejudices of the local readership in these predominantly Morman states. On the other hand, it may also have been that these Sullivans were a rough bunch.
1881: Frank Sullivan, formerly of New York, born 1838, marries Pasquala Contreras. They have one daughter. Sullivan will die in the Los Angeles Old Soldiers home of stomach cancer ("bravely, even cheerfully")
1885: Sergeant Sullivan, the actual discoverer of White Hills Gold Mine, a good fellow, generous and brave, a final victim of "the Cup that Cheers". MS684
1895: P. Sullivan of Solomonville, Gila Valley, objects to railroad building through his property so he builds a house on the tracks and moves his family in. According to the Seaport News and Mail, San Deigo January 9, 1895 pp1, Sullivan and his wife are now in jail
My Life and Times, Tom M. Sullivan Jr.
Phoenix Books, 1986.
Story of a hard drinking roustabout Phoenix Irishman who reformed
his ways in his mid thirties and went on to become a prominent
Arizona Poliical Leader, proud father and family man.
1989: Michael J. Sullivan. Found dead in his cabin a stone quarry
near Tucson, March 26. Contractor who built Main Library at the
University. Arizona Daily Star 3/26/89, pp4.
1879: Sullivan, Thomas; accidently killed near the gorge
of the Galisteo Creek, October 13, 1879.
1881: Sullivan, a farmer, badly beaten and killed. Nov
30, 1881
1883: Sullivan, "Red"; shot by Charles Logan at Mineral
Creek, January 1, 1883.
1886: Sullivan, N.B.; a young Cherokee Presbyterian
minister, died Monday evening. 1886.
1918 Sullivan, John; made two attempts to kill himself
at Albuquerque.
New Mexico