Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-11-12
END OF LEES JOURNEY.
Carl III. Mueller, Veteran and Old
Settler Passes Away


Settler Passes Away
Carl ii. Mueller, one of our oldest
and most highly respected residents
passed away at his home, III S. Fifth
street, Sunday evening at about the
hour of seven. The news of his death
came as surprise to his many friends
most of them not knowing that he had
even been confined to his bed. He was
on the street up to within a few days of
his death. Mr.. Mueller's health had
not been the best for several years, and
especially the past year, when ha suf-
fered greatly from rheumatism. About
year ago, he left Wausau for a short
time to take course of treatment and
returned feeling somewhat better. OF
late compound hernia had given him
much trouble and pain, but he was able
to get around and attend to business
matters most every day up TO last Fri
day. On Thursday he represented a
client in Justice Jones' court and at the
ing very bad. On Friday he was feel
ing still worse and some business which
he had laid out for that day had to be
postponed. He began to fail rapidly
and physician was sent for. Finally
on Saturday it was decided that an
operation was the only alternative and
it was performed After that it APP
peared for time that he would soon
recover. The operation afforded re-
lief. On Sunday morning his daughter,
Mrs. Jacob Mortenson of Oak Park, H.,
called up the family by long distance
phone, enquiring about her fathers
health and was given assurance that he
passed through the operation well and
the indications were that there would
be an early recovery. Not many hours
later she was informed that the hopes
of the morning had been dashed on the
rocks of disappointment, and that there
were only slight chances, for his recov-
cry. He began to fail at about 2 o'clock
that afternoon and the end came at the
hour above stated.
The following biography taken from
the Commemorative Biographical
Record, tells the main facts of Carl III.
Mueller's life story:
Anomalies exist in the lives of many
prominent men that perplex unless the
key to their solution is found. 1t might
seem strange that Carl II. Mueller, now
prominent attorney of Wausau,
should, as the scion of a prominent Ger
man family, flee the Fatherland in order
to escape CONSUMPTION in the German
army, only to espouse with ardor the
Union cause in America, and enthus-
iastically give it the best years of his
life. Yet such is the case. The ex-
PLANTATION is that the oonscription was
compulsive and tyranous, and that in
America he quickly imbibed the spirit
of natural liberty and unity, and was
ready to yield his lifes blood for its
perpetuity.
"Mr. Mueller was born in Schwelm,
Westphalia, Prussia, July Is, 1889, son
of Herman Henry and Amelia Q4ang-
ewiesche) Mueller, of whose four chill
dren three survive: Carl III. and two
in Germany-Marie, widow of Rudolph |
Kline, and Herman, both of Schwelm. |
Herman Mueller was a merchant of |
high standing in that village, mem
Der of family in which large land
ed interests in Westphalia have been
entailed since the year 500 A. d., now |
in the possession of CARTS cousin.
Two of Mrs. Mueller's brothers were
lieutenants in the German army. Carl
III. attended the common schools at |
home, and the commercial college of |
Ebberfeld, after which he entered the |
office of wholesale hardware store, |
and at the age of eighteen was a |
commercial traveller. He expected to |
escape CONSUMPTION, as his father was |
over sixty years of age, and his one |
brother only eight years old; but at |
twenty he received the fatal notice |
that he must serve four years, and |
then go into the Landwehr, and be |
liable for service for maneuvers or dur
ing war, until he was forty-two years |
old A cousin from Houghton, Mich, |
was then visiting the old country, and
before the time arrived for taking the |
oath, Carl was on his way to America |
with his cousin Landing at New York !
in 1859 they proceeded to Hougnion,
Mich. Unable to speak English, and |
thus unable to use his commercial |
training, Carl H. found work as COM
mon laborer in the mines until the fall |
of 1860, when he entered the employ of |
Ransom Sheldon, merchant of Hough-
ton.
when the call for volunteers came, |
the young German emigrant was among |
the first to enroll his name, enlisting in |
Company f, First Michigan V. l., and |
hurried to the front. He participated |
in the battles Mechanicsville, Gains
Mills, the seven-days' fight before Rich |
mond, Peach Orchard, White Oak |
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