JOHN E. MUDER, retired furniture dealer and cabinet maker, was born at Mielhausen, Prussia, February 12, 1820, son of Henry and Veronica (GERSTING) MUDER, natives of the same place. The family came to the United States in 1832, and arrived at Saxonburg, Butler county, Pennsylvania, August 24, of that year. They were among the first settlers of the town, which contained at that time only one house. Henry MUDER was a hotel keeper, but later engaged in farming. He died at Saxonburg in 1854, and his wife in 1864, aged sixty-one years, and sixty-eight years, respectively. They were among the organizers of the Evangelical Protestant church of Saxonburg, and were the parents of three sons, as follows: Godfrey, who died in Pittsburg in early manhood; John E., and Henry, who died while serving as a soldier in the Rebellion, from disease contracted in the service, aged sixty-two years. The subject of this sketch learned the cabinet maker's trade in Pittsburg, and established himself in business at Saxonburg in 1840, where he continued to carry on the furniture trade down to a recent date. Mr. MUDER married Amelia STUEBGEN, to which union were born the following children, viz.: Theodore; Josephine; Charles, and William, all of whom are dead; Matilda, wife of Van Buren SMITH; Robert, and Mary, both deceased; Henry, who succeeded to his father's business, [missing names: Philip and George] and John E., an undertaker of Saxonburg. Mrs. MUDER died February 12, 1893. She was a life-long member of the Evangelical Protestant church, to which denomination her husband also belongs. Politically, he is a Republican, and has been a member of the borough council, and filled the office of school director for many years. Mr. MUDER is one of the most respected and representative citizens of Saxonburg, as well as the oldest living man of the original settlers of that town.

(History of Butler Co., PA 1895)