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Author: L. A. Fritsche

               EMIL MUELLER, D. V. S.

    Dr. Emil Mueller, well-known veterinary surgeon of New Ulm and the oldest
continuous practitioner in that line in that city, is a native son of Minnesota,
having been born on a pioneer farm in the neighboring county of Nicollet,
September 8, 1870, son of Henry C. and Eredericka Mueller, both natives of
Germany and early settlers in this part of Minnesota.

    Henry C. Mueller was trained as a carpenter in his native land and when he
came to the United States, in 1855, for a short time worked at his trade in
Chicago. The next year, in 1856, he came to Minnesota, settling in Brown county.
He entered a homestead claim to a quarter of a section of land in Milford
township, built a cabin on the same, broke the sod, proved up the claim and the
next year sold it. He then wintered at New Ulm and in the spring homesteaded a
quarter of a section in Nicollet county on which he established his home, and
soon became recognized as one of the most substantial and influential residents
of the neighborhood in which he settled. At the time of the Indian uprising Mr.
Mueller was warned of the advance of the treacherous redskins by an old Indian
whom he and his wife had often fed and befriended during the winters. Heeding
the warning he and his wife and their small children at once set out for St.
Peter for protection, and had gone hardly more than a quarter of a mile when the
savages surrounded their house and burned it before their eyes. Fortunately,
however, the family's hiding place had been well selected and all eventually
found safe refuge at St. Peter. During those trying times Mr. Mueller served as
a valiant member of the Home Guard and in all ways did well his part as a sturdy
pioneer. Henry C. Mueller prospered in his agricultural operations and when he
retired from the active labors of the farm, in 1893, was the owner of a fine
place of five hundred and forty acres. Ten years later, in 1903, he and his wife
moved to New Ulm, where both spent their last days. Mrs. Mueller died in 1905
and Mr. Mueller survived but a little more than two years, his death occurring
on December 19, 1907.   They were the parents of nine children, of whom the
subject of this sketch was the last horn, all of whom are living save two, the
other survivors being Henry, Herman, Mary, Martin, Prank and William.

     Emil Mueller was reared on the home farm in Nicollet county, receiving his
elementary education in the district schools, supplementing the same by a
three-years course in the Dr. Martin Luther College at New Ulm, after which he
entered the Chicago Veterinary College, from which he was graduated, after a
three-years course, in 1892, receiving the degree of Doctor of Veterinary
Surgery. Thus admirably equipped for the practice of his profession, Doctor
Mueller returned to New Ulm and opened an office in that city, where he ever
since has been very successfully engaged in practice, being now the oldest
veterinarian in continuous practice in that city. Doctor Mueller is a Republican
and gives a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, but is not
included in the office-seeking class.

     In 1894 Dr. Emil Mueller was united in marriage to Luella Yates, who was
born in Dane county, Wisconsin, daughter of Ralph Pierce and Mary (Martin)
Yates, the former a native of that same state and the latter of the state of New
York. For forty years and more Ralph P. Yates has been a locomotive engineer. To
him and his wife three children were born, one of whom is dead, leaving Mrs.
Mueller one brother, Fred Yates. To Doctor and Mrs. Mueller one child has been
born, a daughter, Naomi Ruth. Doctor Mueller is a Mason of high degree, a Knight
Templar and a member of the temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine at St. Paul, while he and his wife are both members of the Order
of the Eastern Star. The doctor is past high priest of New Ulm Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons, and is the present junior warden of New Ulm Commandery, Knights
Templar. He also is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and in the affairs
of these various fraternal affiliations takes a warm interest.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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