MULLER, CHRISTIAN

MULLER, SCHODT

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Date: 10/4/2001 at 09:13:56

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

CHRISTIAN MULLER, saloon, Fifth avenue; was born in Saxony, Germany, May 7,1826; he was brought up there and learned the shoemaker's trade; in 1852, he emigrated to America, and worked at his trade in Brooklyn for three years, then came to Illinois, and lived in Aurora eleven years; was foreman and cutter in a boot and shoe store; be came to Clinton in 1866; worked at his trade two years; in January, 1868, he was burned out; he owns the building he now occupies, which he built two years ago; when he came to this county and began keeping house, he only had 75 cents. He married Henrietta Schodt; she was born in Germany in 1851; they have seven children-Augustus, Charles, Victor, Oscar, Rosa, Bertha and Louise; have lost four children. Augustus enlisted in the regular army and served in Co. F, 6th Regt. U. S. troops.