| Married on November 11, 1896 |
Frieda Schilly and Lorenz Mueller
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| Frieda was the tenth child born to Lorenz Schilly and Victoria Birkenmeier, and the sixth born in Corondelet, Missouri. The ninth child, Victoria Schilly, only lived three years (b. 6-18-1873, d. 11-2-1876). |
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Frieda Schilly outside her fathers store in 1880s.
Lorenz Mueller
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| people were often identified by the kind of work they did. Mueller is an occupational name for a miller, derived from the Old Germanic "Mulinari." In the medieval era, many different cultural groups lived in the German states. There are thus many regional variations of German surnames from that era. Westphalians spoke Low German, which is similar to modern Dutch. Many German names carry suffixes that identify where they came from. Others have phrases attached that identify something about the original bearer. Other variations in German names resulted from the fact that medieval scribes worked without the aid of any spelling rules. The spelling variations of the name Mueller include Mueller, Muller, Mueler, Muler, Miller, Moeller, Muellner, Milner, Molner and many more. First found in Southern Germany, where they were established in the Middle Ages. Thousands of German settlers came to North America between the mid-17th and mid-20th centuries. The hardships of the long voyage were balanced by the opportunity to escape poverty and religious persecution. The descendents of these settlers still populate the states of Pennsylvania, Texas, New York, Illinois, and California. Many also live in Ontario and the prairie provinces of Canada. An inquiry into the early roots of North American families has revealed a number of immigrants bearing the name Mueller or a variant listed above: Jacob Mueller, who emigrated to America with his wife and five children in 1709; Hans Lendert Miller, who settled in Philadelphia in 1728; as did Heinrich Miller in 1740 and Adam Miller in 1754. Suggested Readings for the name Mueller * Mueller Genealogy by George P. Mueller. * The Mueller Family Tree and the Meier Family Tree, About 1700-1983, 10 Generations by Estella Michels. * The Mueller Mystique by Ned Mueller. Some noteworthy people of the name Mueller * Charles Mueller, who was the Swiss Ambassador to Indonesia and Vietnam from 1970 to 1973 * Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich Mueller (1825-1896), explorer * Gebhard Mueller, who served as the Prime Minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg from 1953 to 1958 * K. Alex Mueller, who won the Nobel prize for physics in 1987. * Willard Fritz Mueller, who was the Chief Economist of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in Washington from 1961 to 1968 Mueller can be Jewish, or the Mueller family name has long been found in region known today as the Netherlands. It is unclear whether the name moved to the region from Germany, or arose independently in Holland. Mueller is an occupational name for a miller, derived from the Old Germanic "Mulinari." Spelling variations of this family name include: Mueller, Muller, Mueler, Muler, Miller, Moeller, Moller, Muellner, Milner, Molner, Molenauer, Molenaar and many more. First found in Southern Germany, where they were established in the Middle Ages. |