Mueller, Adolph F. C.

Born: 1824-11-XX Germany

Died: 1907-08-06 Chicago, Illinois

Flourished: 1854 to 1907 Chicago, Illinois

Adolph F. C. Mueller, attorney, immigrated to the United States in 1849 and was practicing law in Chicago by 1854. He was selected to be president of a German Republican club in Chicago in 1856, and later that same year was elected as a Republican to represent Cook County in the Illinois House of Representatives, serving from January to February 1857. In 1859, he was elected collector for the city of Chicago. Mueller married Minna Niemann Benze about 1852 and had one stepson.

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