Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Muller, Rudolf March 9, 1877 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925.
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

RUDOLF MULLER, Plantation Accountant. Coming to Hawaii in 1895 as a youth of 
18, Rudolf Muller, chief accountant and office manager of Ewa Plantation Co. 
since July, 1913, has been continuously associated with the sugar industry for 
thirty years.
  Born in Heidelberg, Germany, March 9, 1877, son of Heinrich and Fanny 
Clement Muller, Mr. Muller was educated at the Royal Real-Gymnasium, 
Wiesbaden, and for a year studied sugar chemistry in the Fresenius 
laboratories, Wiesbaden.
  Sailing from Liverpool in May, 1895, on the ship “Marie Hackfeld,” he made 
the long voyage around Cape Horn and arrived at Honolulu on Oct. 4, 1895.
  His first employment in the islands was with the Hawaiian Sugar Co., 
Makaweli, Kauai, where, from 1896 to 1898, he served in various capacities, as 
night chemist, field overseer and bookkeeper, also mastering the sugar boiling 
trade. He was bookkeeper in the merchandise department of H. Hackfeld & Co., 
1898-1904, and was with Kihei plantation and the Kahului store on Maui, 1904-
6, joining Ewa Plantation Co. in the latter year and occupying different 
office positions until he was appointed chief accountant in 1913. He was 
secretary of the Republican precinct Club at Ewa, 1907-11, and served three 
terms as inspector of elections.
  Mr. Muller is an Elk, a member of the Honolulu Automobile Club and a member 
of the Hawaii Chapter, National Association of Cost Accountants. He married 
Agnes Carroll on April 30, 1904, and they have one daughter, Sascha Muriel 
Muller.


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