Michael J. Sullivan was born in Minnesota in 1868. He was from Minneapolis where he was active in the union and served as Corresponding Secretary of the Local in 1897. He moved back to Minneapolis and was profiled in the "Prominent Stone Cutters" feature of the Stone Cutters Journal in Nov. and Dec. of 1905 when he was elected as a State Representative to the Minnesota Legislature from Minneapolis. This was a popular address for itinerant stone cutters. Others include: Albert and Charles Laughlin, James Payette, Otto Raschick.