Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Muffler, Henry  
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

MUFFLER, Henry, Grundy County, Ill., has no more progressive and enterprising 
farmer and stockraiser than Henry Muffler, whose modern ideas and methods have 
brought him noteworthy success in the line of his calling. He is a native of 
the Prairie State, having been born at Ottawa, September 5, 1861, and is a son 
of Thomas and Kreszentz (Hess) Muffler, natives, respectively, of Baden and 
Wurttemberg, Germany, the former of whom came to the United States in 1858, 
and the latter three years later. After his marriage Thomas Muffler followed 
various lines of employment until 1865, when he began farming in La Salle 
County, on rented land, but in 1877 came to Vienna Township, Grundy County, 
and purchased 160 acres of land, partly improved, which he put under a high 
state of cultivation. He continued to follow farming until his death in 1896, 
and in the following year the mother moved to Seneca, Ill., where she still 
resides, at the age of eighty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Muffler had seven 
children, the two living being:  Joseph, of Norman Township; and Henry, of 
Vienna Township.

Henry Muffler secured good educational advantages in his youth, attending both 
the common schools of La Salle County and the Sisters and Brothers Catholic 
school at Ottawa. At the time of his father’s death his brother Joseph 
inherited 200 acres of land in Norman Township, while Henry was given the old 
home place, now one of the finest farms in the county, and known as the 
Fairview Grain and Stock Farm. He has always been engaged in general farming, 
and successfully breeds Belgian horses, Shorthorn cattle and Poland-China 
hogs. The many improvements on his place and the highly cultivated fields 
indicate great thrift and industry on the part of the owner, and his success 
has not been gained at the expense of his fellow-men. He owns also 160 acres 
in Manitoba, Canada.

In the year of 1898, Mr. Muffler was married to Miss Emma J. Gettler, who was 
born at Seneca, Ill., May 4, 1878, a daughter of Frank and Elizabeth (Moser) 
Gettler, natives of Germany, who accompanied their parents to the United 
States as children, and were reared and married in Pennsylvania. Mr. Gettler 
died in 1890 while the mother survived until 1901. Five children have been 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Muffler, as follows:  Henry Howard, June 8, 1899; Velma 
Marie, July 29, 1901; Celia Emma, March 16, 1903; Mabel Elizabeth, June 17, 
1905; and Loretta Kreszentz, August 18, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Muffler are 
consistent members of the Catholic Church at Kinsman. He is a Republican, but 
has never cared for public office.

page 869

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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