Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Fred. MULLER, miller, Lockport; was born in Prussia, Germany, Aug. 16, 1827; he immigrated 
to America in 1854, and stopped first in Chicago, but soon came to Lockport, and was employed 
at general work one year; in 1855, he engaged in work for Norton & Co.; in 1859, be went to 
St. Louis, where he worked at gardening. When the first call was made for troops he enlisted 
May 8, 1861, in Co. H, 5th Regt. Mo. V. I,, and served three and a half months; participated 
in the battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo., in which Gen. Lyon was killed; returning, he remained 
a short time in St. Louis, and then came again to Lockport; he worked for Norton & Co. a 
second time until June 1874, when he leased the old mill, now owned by Dr. J. F. DAGGETT, 
which he is now operating. In the fall of 1863, he was drafted, but employed a substitute. 
He was married Nov. 10, 1865, to Elizabeth BRINKEY, a native of Bohemia; has five children 
- Elizabeth, William, Mary, John, August. He is familiarly known as Honest Fred, the miller 
on the Des Plaines.