Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Muller, Charles Frederick 1919 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Hanson ihansonb@fmtc.com December 12, 2005, 11:31 pm Payette Enterprise 4-17-1919 Payette Enterprise Payette, Idaho Thursday, April 17, 1919 COL C. F. MULLER Charles Frederick Muller was born in Philadelphia on January 11, 1844. The early part of his life was spent in the immediate vicinity of Philadelphia. In 1870 he was united in marriage to Lucie Branen Randall of Brockport, New York. Two daughters were born to this union -- Lucile Muller Morgan who is living at present in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, and Maud Muller Clements, wife of Dr. Melbourn Clements, U.S. N., Chief Medical officer on the S. S. Wilhelmina. In 1900 he was married to Margaret Whittaker of Philadelphia. Of this marriage there was born one son, Charles F. Muller Jr., who is now attending Moran school at Rolling Bay, Washington. For twelve years, from 1897 to 1909 Colonel Muller lived in France, as the executor of the estate of his uncle, Dr. Thomas Evans, the renowned American dentist of Paris. After a year and a half of travel in the United States following residence abroad, he came to Payette in 1911 in the interest of an irrigation project on Oregon Slope and then became interested in Payette, erecting the cold storage plant, one of the largest and best of its kind in the entire Northwest. Colonel Muller was a member of the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of Loyal Legion. He was department commander of the G.A.R. of Tennessee and had never severed his connection with his Post at Chattanooga, Tenn. Mrs. Muller and Junior left with the body Monday morning for Philadelphia where interment will take place in Woodlands Cemetery. Colonel Muller's life was purposeful four score years, rich in worldwide experience and full of service of struggle and achievement. There was no pause in his virile activities until the end suddenly came. The rich life of Colonel Muller covered an equally rich period of his country's history. The scene of his youthful activity was the old historic city of Philadelphia, and while he was a boy many of the political giants of our history were still alive and Philadelphia was the center of political activity. His boyhood and young manhood were passed amid the storms of a great argument, made necessary by the silence of our Constitution as to the nature of the Union. To our minds, cleared of the hot temper of time, that age seems an unhappy time; but it was a good age in which to be born, for men were in earnest about deep, vital things. It was, indeed, an age of passion, but of passion based on principle and enthusiasm and deep loyalties -- and it made men, for men then counted their ideals as of more value than their lives and they kept faith with their ideals. Indeed, it was a good age in which to be born. Colonel Muller was but a boy of 17 when the great drama, fate-driven and fate- determined, passed from argument into grim war, and he himself, at that early age of 17 caught in the grip of that same fate, played the part of a man and a soldier. No wonder he was a man of high purpose and ideals. He had reached young manhood when the storm had passed and despair had smitten so many souls, but he was a young man of heart and courage and he set himself to make good in life. The most vivid characteristic of the man during the late world war and since was his intense and complete Americanism. His home was of the ideal American type where loving and thoughtful consideration and equality of interest are the fundamentals of family life. He was more than husband and father in his home -- he was friend and companion, appreciating with a rare understanding the problems of wife and children. Knowing the value of a good woman's influence, he made his wife his confidant and true helpmate. As a friend, he was loyal and true, and while he admitted but few to the inner sanctuary of his friendship, he was admired and respected by all. He was a public spirited citizen, interested to the end in the welfare of his fellow beings. One of his closest friends said of him, "He was a man of the finest fiber I have met." Frank and upright in character, kind and considerate, but positive and outspoken, there was nothing in his life in Payette, that did not square with his convictions. We shall remember him as a dignified, courtly, Christian gentleman -- one whose motives were pure, whose oath was straight and who never shirked from what he considered duty. His life and character in Payette will survive as a wholesome memory. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/obits/m/muller805nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/idfiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb