Dr. J.G. Mueller 1870-1918

MUELLER, BUETTNER, MILLER, CORRIDAN

Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 5/12/2009 at 22:57:33

Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City (Johnson Co.), Iowa, 18 October 1918.

DR. MUELLER DIED HERE LAST NIGHT
Dr. J.G. Mueller died at a local hospital here last night after a hard fight against pneumonia, influenza and other complications. He had been very low for several days and his friends had been expecting the summons.

Dr. Mueller was born in Iowa City, March 29th, 1870, his parents, Adam and Mrs. Justina Buettner Mueller, being of the pioneers of the place, and with the exception of one year - 1895-1896, his entire life was spent in this community. Dr. Mueller graduated from the State University of Iowa in 1895 after three years work in the College of Liberal Arts followed by a medical course and later by post-graduate work in bacteriology and was for several years after assistant in gynecology in the Medical College at S.U.I.

During his college life he was prominent as a debater in Irving society, and a member of the football team, and had the rank of major in the university military batallion.

On October 15th, 1895 Dr. Mueller was married to Miss Catherine Miller of Gilbertville, Iowa, who died in February, 1912. Five children of this marriage survive--Elizabeth, a graduate nurse, Lucille, a senior in training in Glockner sanatarium, Colorado Springs, Mary, a senior in St. Mary's high school of this city, John, aged 12, and Catherine, aged ten years.

October 31st 1913 he was married to Miss Margaret Corridan, who survives him. Other relatives surviving are four brothers, Dr. A.J. Mueller, a dentist of Waterloo, Iowa, W.P. and L.F. Mueller local merchants, Dr. Otto H. Mueller, lieutenant in the U.S. medical corps, now at a point of embarkation, two sisters, Mary and Margaret Mueller and an aunt, Miss Margaret Buettner.

He was a life long member of the Catholic church, serving as an altar boy in St. Mary's church, and in his later life a member of the Catholic Order of Forresters, the Knights of Columbus and was but yesterday re-elected a member of the national board of directors of the Roman Catholic Mutual Protective society of Iowa, now in session at New Hampton, Iowa, a society which his father helped to organize.

Other societies of which he was an active member are American Medical Association, Johnson County Medical Association, Rock Island Surgeons, and Association of Radway Surgeons, and the local lodge of Elks.

Dr. Mueller was an honored and valued resident of the community and numbered his friends by the hundreds. He was an upright and public spirited citizen whose long service had endeared him to many. He will be sadly missed by a large circle of friends.

The funeral will be held from the family residence Saturday morning, the hour cannot be announced until word is received from distant relatives.