Husband: Carl Wilhelm MUELLER
Birthdate: 10 March 1856
Birthplace: Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
Death date: 9 March 1905
Place of death: Grande Chute, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Father: Friedrich "Fritz" MUELLER
Mother: Marie Dorothea HOURVE

Marriage date: 27 November 1879
Marriage place: Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Wife: Helen LIPKE
Birthdate: 15 February 1861
Birthplace: Ellington, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Death date: 30 August 1938
Place of death: Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
Father: Henry LIPKE
Mother: Henriette ANGELROTH

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Edward Otto MUELLER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 25 July 1882
Birthplace: Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin,
Death date: 17 March 1960
Place of death: McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon
Marriage date: 28 April 1913
Marriage place: Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Spouse's name: Bertha Julia SCHILLING

Child No. 2: Henry Arnold MUELLER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 24 December 1883
Birthplace: Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Death date: 21 September 1913
Place of death: Grande Chute, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
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Child No. 3: Alvin Steffen MUELLER
Sex: M
Birthdate: 7 October 1886
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Death date: 26 April 1905
Place of death: Wisconsin
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Child No. 4: Emma Henrietta MUELLER
Sex: F
Birthdate: 24 January 1889
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Death date: July 1982
Place of death: Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
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Child No. 5: Helen Hattie MUELLER
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Birthdate: 7 November 1891
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Death date: 10 November 1972
Place of death: Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
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Child No. 6: Bertha Bonita MUELLER
Sex: F
Birthdate: 9 Jan 1894
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Death date: 9 September 1974
Place of death: Silverton, Marion County, Oregon
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Spouse's name: Harvey HALLETT
 

Documentation:
* !Birth: Birth record in handwriting of Charles Mueller (photocopy):
at top, in different handwriting,
"Charles Mueller Born Mar 10--1856, Died 1905. Married in 1879 to Helen Lipke."
in his handwriting:
"Birthdays, Helen Miller Feb 15 1861. Edward O Miller July 25,1882. Henry A Miller Dec 24, 1883. Alvin S Miller Oct 7 1886. Emma H Miller Jan 24. 1889. Hattie H Miller Nov 7 1891. Bonneto B Miller Jan 9 1894.
[under a line below]
"Look out for the Automobiles [there is crossed out] they are great horses, [y]just ask the price of them and try to get a ride in one of them. Ten oclock. bed time."
Death dates are in my mother's (Alice Mueller Robe) handwriting:
Helen Miller [Sept is crossed out, as is last digit of the year] Aug 30 1938; Edward died March 17--1960; Henry ditto Sept 21--1913; Alvin Apr 1905; Hattie died Nov-10-1972; Bonneto [sic] died Sept 9-1974.
According to Margaret Groner Smolla, who copied this document for Emma Mueller, it was written in 1901. This is in a note in Alice's handwriting on the reverse side: Mueller family history. This is your father's handwriting from the year 1901 (written by Margaret Smolla to Emma Mueller). Grandfather of Alice Mueller. Great-grandfather of Margaret and Robert Robe.
* !Marriage: same source.
* Biography in History of Outagamie County gives marriage date as 27 Nov 1880.
* Morrow and Gillett's Appleton City Directory for 1889-90 (when Appleton had 14,000 pop.) lists p. 108 Charles W. Miller, res. 355 Locust, laborer. Copied by Alice from Los Angeles Pub. Lib.
* !Death: have photo of tombstone.
* In History of Outagamie County Wisconsin, pub. by Goodspeed Historical Assn., Chicago, p. 619-20, is a biography of Charles William Mueller, deceased. This gives birthdate of March 2, 1865 and birthplace as Berlin, Germany. It says he was a son of Frederick and Bertha Mueller (Bertha, Frederick's second wife, was in fact his stepmother), and it gives their birthdates and the fact that neither ever left Germany. Charles came to the U.S., it says, at age 14 with an aunt, and they located in Outagamie County, where he attended school for about a year, having previously been tutored in his native country. He worked on the farms of Ellington township until his marriage, after which for one year he operated on his father-in-law's farm. He then secured employment in the grist mill in Appleton for three years, and spent a number of years in the lumber yard, but eventually purchased a farm in Grand Chute township, where he was actively engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. He was a member of the Evangelical Church and a Republican in politics. Then article gives his marriage date as 27 Nov 1880, wife's birthdate and birthplace (15 Feb 1861, Ellington Twp., Outagamie Co.) and wife's parents' birthdates and birthplaces as Germany. States that wife's parents were married in Outagamie Co. Rest of article gives info. on Lipke family and on widowed Helen Lipke Mueller. Lists their six children and their birthdates (all birthdates same as on handwritten record).