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Parents: Carl Ottomar Mueller & Emilie Antonie Krumling (both born in Germany).
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Georg Pedrick Paul Mueller: Went by "Paul". (Lorraine Charlotte Shook).
Georg Friedrich Paul Muller: (Lorraine Charlotte Shook - variation).
Georg Friedrich Mueller: (Germany Births & Baptism record?).
George Paul Muller: (DuPage Co., IL Naturalization index?).
Paul Georg Mueller: (Germany Births & Baptism record?).
Paul G. F. Mueller: (1910 USA Census).
Paul Mueller: (Death Certificate & Headstone).
Paul Muller: (Ellis Island & 1895 NY Passenger List).
Paul Müller: (1890 German Census?).
Paul Miller: (1920 USA Census).

The name Muller is written in English as Mueller.

b. 18 Mar 1856, Annaberg, ______, Germany. (Per Lorraine Charlotte Shook & See Death Certificate for date/country).
b. Annaberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony (Sachsen), Germany / Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany [138.5 km to Taucha] -or-
Annaberg, Landkreis Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany [554 km to Taucha] -or-
Annaberg, Karl Marx Stadt, Germany.] [Unknown which county and does not match marriage location].

m. 31 Mar 1895, Taucha, Leipzig, Germany, Ferdinande Ema Hedwig Eisenschmidt. (Lorraine Charlotte Shook).
Note: Married on 22 _____ 1895, in the Lutheran Church at Leipzig. (Family Note).
Note: Knelt on wedding pillows. (Still in family 2020 - Robert "Bob" Lee Evans, Jr.).

d. 1 Sep 1925, Shellville Colony, Sonoma County, California, USA. (Death Certificate & Cemetery Records).

Burial: Mountain View Cemetery, 5000 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, Alameda County, California 94611, telephone (510) 658-2588. Plot 55, Grave 305.

Headstone: "PAUL MUELLER, 1856 - 1925 / HEDWIG MUELLER, 1857 - 1943 / GEB EISENSCHMIDT AUF WIEDERSEHEN"
Note: "GOODBYE"

Photos:
Portrait - Otto Hock studio - Bromberg, Germany
Portrait - J. Van Ronzclen studio - Berlin, Germany
Husband & Wife together.
Casket photo.

Note: Wikipedia: "Annaberg-Buchholz is a town in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Lying in the Ore Mountains, it is the capital of the district of Erzgebirgskreis."

Note: Wikipedia: "The Bromberg district was a Prussian district that existed from 1772 to 1807 and then from 1815 to 1920. It initially belonged to the Netze District and from 1815 it was part of Regierungsbezirk Bromberg in the Grand Duchy of Posen and from 1848, the Prussian Province of Posen. The city of Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz, Poland) was detached from the district and formed its own urban district since 1875. Today, the territory of the district is part of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland.

Possible alternative records: (No access to German records -- need to pull to see date/parents info.)
Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 (in German)
Birth, Marriage & Death
Name: Georg Friedrich Mueller
Birth: date
Baptism: date - location
Name: Paul Georg Mueller
Birth: date
Baptism: date - location

Possible record: (not copied/transcribed) - see notes under his parents.
1890 German Census: Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census, 1890 (in German)
Ottomar Müller
Antonie Müller
Paul Müller

8-1-1889 to 3- 1-1894: Residence: Leased the estate Forstel near Raschau in the Erzgebirge, Germany. Apparently he gave up this farm due to a poor harvest due to colossal drought (2 years).

Paul wrote, "On August 1, 1889, I leased the estate Forstel near Raschau in the Erzgebirge, but decided to give it up on March 1, 1894, because there were bad harvests due to colossal drought in the last two years. Then I took a position as bookkeeper on the estate Neuhaus-Leitzkau near Magdeburg, w[h]ere Charlotte was born.

07 Nov 1891, a son, -- Mueller, was born and died in Elterlein, Karl Marx Stadt, Germany.

23 Nov 1893, a son, Julius Ottomar Carl "Charles" Mueller, was born in Raschau, Erzgebirge, Germany.

3-1-1894: Residence: Estate Neuhaus-Leitzkau near Magdeburg, Germany.

4 Dec 1894, a daughter, Antonie Ferdinande Charlotte Mueller (went by Charlotte or "Lottie"), was born on the Estate of Neuhaus, Leitzkau, Magdeburg, Germany.

m. 31 Mar 1895, Taucha, Leipzig, Germany, Ferdinande Ema Hedwig Eisenschmidt. (Per Lorraine Charlotte Shook - she went by Hedwig).

Married on 22 1895, in the Luthern Church at Leipzig. (Family Note).

Paul married Hedwig in1895, in Taucha, Leipzig, Germany. They each knelt on a green pillow when they said their wedding vows. Hedwig knelt on a green pillow with flowers, leaves, and a dragonfly embroidered on it and Paul on one with a diagonal stripe and design with some subtle flowers in it.
These pillows were passed down to his daughter Charlotte, then to her daughter Lorraine, then to her son Robert in 2005. (He still has these pillows today--2017).

3-31-1895 to 4-12-1895: Immigrated from Leipzig, Germany to New York, United States of America.

4-12-1895 Ellis Island, New York - Immigration from Germany: From handwritten record:
Name: Paul Muller
Age: 37
Sex: M (quote from two spaces above)
Married: M
Calling or Occupation: Farmer
Native Country: Germany (quotes from two lines above)
Intended Destination or Location State or Territory: Chicago, Ill.
Transient, In Transit or intending protracted sojourn. Int. protr.soj. (quotes from six lines above)
Location of Compartment or Space occupied forward amidships or aft. Comp. B (quotes from above)
Number of pieces of Baggage.
Port of Embarkation. Bremen (quotes from six lines above)
Date and Cause of Death. (blank)

From Typed Record:
1895: Manifest for Saale sailing from Bremen Line 0007, Page 0023
Date of Arrival: 4-12-1895
Port of Departure: Bremen
Name: Paul Muller
Age: 39
Sex: M (quotes from two lines above)
Married: M
Calling or Occupation: Farmer
Native Country: Germany (quotes from two lines above)
Intended Destination or Location State or Territory: Chicago, Ill.
Transient, In Transit or intending protracted sojourn. Int. protr.soj. (quotes from six lines above)
Location of Compartment or Space occupied forward amidships or aft. Comp. B (quotes from above)
Number of pieces of Baggage.
Port of Embarkation. Bremen (quotes from six lines above)
Date and Cause of Death. (blank)

Georg Pedrick Paul Mueller - Paul Muller - sailed to America from Germany arriving on
4-12-1895 on the SS Saale.
Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Glasgow, Scotland, 1886. 5,217 gross tons; 455 (bp) feet long; 48 feet wide. Steam triple expansion engine, single screw. Service speed 17 knots. 1,240 passengers (150 first class, 90 second class, 1,000 third class). Built for North German Lloyd, German flag, in 1886 and named Saale. Bremerhaven-New York and Mediterranean-New York service. Badly damaged in Great Hoboken Pier Fire in June 1900 and renamed J. L. Luckenbach. Freighter service. Renamed Princess in 1924. Renamed Madison in 1924. Scrapped in Italy in 1924.

Paul wrote, "I, G. F. Paul Muller, left Leipzig on March 31, 1895, via Bremen to America where I landed in New York on April 12, 1895."

"After I had been in Nebraska from April 17 to August 19, 1895, I went to Chicago, Illinois where I found work in various factories."

"On April 24, 1896, my wife Hedwig left Leipzig with the children Carl and Charlotte and traveled to New York where they arrived on May 8, and on May 10, 1896, they arrived in Chicago, Illinois."

4-17-1895 to 8-19-1895: Residence: Nebraska. Alone.
8-20-1895: Residence: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Alone.
5-10-1896: Residence: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Wife and children joined him.

Record?
Index to the Naturalization Records of DuPage County, Illinois
Hardbound, 292 pages, 6,000 individuals.
Index lists the full name; the date, locality, and country of birth; date and
port of entry if on the original record.
Name: George Paul Muller

1900 U. S. Federal Census: [Can't find.] [Chicago, Cook County, Illinois].

1910 U. S. Federal Census (April 22): Dist. 722, Chicago Ward 15, Cook County, Illinois
1408 N. Hoyne
House
Dwelling 126, Family 261

Paul G. F. Mueller, Head, Male, White Age 54 [also indexed 57], Estimated Birth Year: abt 1856 [also indexed abt 1853], Marriage 1, # of Years Married 18, Birthplace Germany - German, Father's Birthplace Germany - German, Mother's Birthplace Germany - German, Year of Immigration 1895, Naturalized [Pa?], Able to Speak English Yes, Occupation Laborer - Mail Order House, Worker, At Work April 15 No, Weeks Unemployed 0, Can Read & Write Yes, Rent, House, 15, -5, -3, -X.

Hedwig F. E. Mueller, Wife, Female, White, Age 52, Marriage 1, # of Years Married 18, # of Children 2, # of Children Still Living 2, Birthplace Germany - German, Father's Birthplace Germany - German, Mother's Birthplace Germany - German, Year of Immigration 1896, Able to Speak English Yes, Occupation None.

Karl J. O. Mueller, Son, Male, White, Age 16, Single, Birthplace Germany - German, Father's Birthplace Germany - German, Mother's Birthplace Germany - German, Year of Immigration 1896, Able to Speak English Yes, Occupation Messenger Boy - Mail Order House, Worker, At Work April 15 No, Weeks Unemployed 0, Can Read & Write Yes, Attend School Yes, 14, -3, -3, -X.

Charlotte A. F. Mueller, Daughter, Female, White, Age 15, Single, Birthplace Germany - German, Father's Birthplace Germany - German, Mother's Birthplace Germany - German, Year of Immigration 1896, Able to Speak English Yes, Occupation None.

Mentioned in Son's record:
28 Jan 1918: U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
8599
No.: 3592 A
Order No.: 128 1/2
Name: Charles Mueller
Age in yrs.: 24
Street Address: Y M C A
Residence Place: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Ca[lifornia, USA]
Birth Date: November 23, 1893
Are you: Naturalized Ithrough Father's Papers.
Birth Place: Leipzig, Germany
Occupation: Clerk
By whom employed: not now
Where employed: X
Have you a father, mother, wife, child under 12, or a sister or brother under 12, solely dependent on you for support: Father & Mother
Marital Status: Single
Race: Caucasian (White)
What military service have you had? Rank: Private; branch: Tract [?] Artillery
Years: 11 months
Nation or State: National
Do you claim exemption: No
Signature: Charles Mueller
REGISTRAR'S REPORT
Height: Medium
Physical Build: Medium
Hair Color: Light Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Signature of registrar: Geo. J. Devis
Residence Date: Jan. 28, 1918
Draft Board: [17] - Los Angeles County, California

1920 U. S. Federal Census (Jan. 17-19): Chicago Ward 25, Cook County, Illinois
1132 Ainslie (?) Street
Dwelling 273, Family 462

Paul Miller, Head, Rent Home, Male, White, Age 65, Married, Year of Immigration 1878, Naturalized, Year of Naturalization 1885, Birthplace Germany - German, Father's Birthplace Germany - German, Mother's Birthplace Germany - German, Able to Speak English Yes, Occupation Iron Worker - Machine Shop, Worker.

Hedwig Miller, Wife, Female, White, Age 61, Married, Year of Immigration 1878, Naturalized, Year of Naturalization 1885, Can Read/Write Yes, Birthplace Germany - German, Father's Birthplace Germany - German, Mother's Birthplace Germany - German, Able to Speak English Yes, Occupation None.

1922: Moved from San Francisco to Shellville, Sonoma County, California. Bought a pear farm.

1 Sep 1925 Residence: 1644 Bush (?) St. (Per Hedwig - Informant on his Death Cert.).
[San Francisco Co., CA - per wife's 1936 CA Voter Registration - also at 1644 Bush St.]

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He was a tall man.

Occupations: He was a farmer, bookkeeper, and factory worker (bicycle).

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Lorraine Charlotte Shook recalls being told her grandfather Paul Mueller worked over 20 years in bicycle factories and that the farm near Sonora was five acres of pears.
She also was told that Hedwig had been an actress.
Lorraine has the pillows they knelt on when they said their wedding vows. When Lorraine went into a care facility these pillows were in her daugther Elizabeth Folsom's possession. In 2014 [to date 2021] they were in the possession of Robert "Bob" Lee Evans, Jr.
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Paul's granddaughter, Lorraine Charlotte Shook, mused that he had an "X" shape from the waist down, with the knees being at the center of the X. From his hips his knees came straight down together and touched and then his legs flairs out to the feet. She reported that this is where her son John and daughter Elizabeth got their Mueller "X" legs. They used insoles to help the bone grow straighter.

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d. 1 Sep 1925, Shellville Colony, Sonoma County, California. (Death Certificate & Cemetery Records).
Latitude 38 degrees 14' 38" N; Longitude 122 degrees 24' 54" W

Death Certificate.
1. Place of Death: Dist. No. 4957
County of: Sonoma
Town of: Shelville, Cal.
2. Full Name: Paul Mueller
3. Sex: Male
4. Color: White
5. Single, Married, Widowed, or Divorced: Married
5a. Husband of: Hedwig Mueller
6. Date of Birth: Mch 18 1856
7. Age: 69
8. Occupation: Farmer
9. Birthplace: Germany
10. Name of Father: Olomar Mueller
Parents:
11. Birthplace of Father: Germany
12. Maiden Name of Mother: Antonia Krimling [or Antonio or Antonis]
13. Birthplace of Mother: Germany
18a. Length of Residence At Place of Death: 3 years
14. The above is true to the best of my knowledge: (Informant) Hedwig Mueller
(Address) 1644 Bush (?) St.
15. Filed: Sept. 1, 1925, H. N. Gollinky (?), Registrar or Deputy
Coroner's Certificate of Death
16. Date of Death: Sep 1 1925
17. I hereby certify as to the person above named and herein described, That on Sep 1 1925 I held an inquest and the jury rendered a verdict on the death. Or, that I have investigated the death officially on account of
The Cause of Death was as follows: Chronic Myocarditis
Approved: (Signed) Jaisnull (? - can't read name) H. Phillips, Coroner
Sep 1 1925 (Address) Sonoma County
19. Place of Burial: Oakland, Cal.
Date of Burial: Sept. 2, 1925
24. Undertaker: H. S. Bates
Address: Sonoma
Embalmer's License No.: 763

Burial: Mountain View Cemetery, 5000 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, Alameda County, California. Plot 55, Grave 305.
Paul Mueller is buried near his wife's grave (Hedwig Mueller).
The cemetery records reflect that he was born 3-18-1856 in Germany and died 9-1-1925 at age 69 in Shellville. [I can not locate Shellville on any current maps.]