Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Henry C. Mueller

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Henry C. Mueller, shoemaker, was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, in 
1848, and is the son of Conrad and Anna Mueller. The father died in 
1876, aged [p.1178] seventy-five. The mother died in 1878. aged 
seventy. Henry is the next youngest of eight children. five of whom 
reached maturity. At the age of fifteen he immigrated to America, and 
located at Portsmouth, Ohio where he served three years as an 
apprentice at the shoemaker trade. In the winters of 1867 and 1868 he 
worked in Wheelersburg, Ohio. In January, 1868, he moved to Danville, 
Tenn., and worked there and at Erin, Tenn., until 1882, when he moved 
to Van Buren, Ark., and commenced raising fruit and vegetables. In 
1884 he opened a shoe-shop, and works at his trade during the fall and 
winter months, giving attention to fruit farming in the spring and 
summer. He owns fifteen acres of land near the city, on which he 
lives, and has fourteen acres in strawberries, 2,100 peach trees, 400 
plum, apple, pear and cherry trees and 1,000 grape vines. He owns 135 
acres in all, in the vicinity of Van Buren. In 1868 he married 
Caroline M. Winkler, who was born in Wheelersburg, Ohio, in 1853, and 
is the mother of five children: Charles, Lillie, Nina, Arthur and 
Katie. In politics Mr. Mueller is a Democrat, and in religion he and 
his wife belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is a Royal 
Arch Mason, and a member of the A. O. U. W. 

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