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J. H. MUELLER, attorney at law, Glenfield, was born January 15, 1845, in Springfield, Ohio, son of H. P. Mueller, a native of Rhein-Prussia, and who came to America at the age of twenty years, in 1837. H. P. Mueller was a student in the Ohio Synod; was a professor in Washington College, and as a Lutheran minister preached eloquently in Allegheny and elsewhere. He eventually became editor of the Pennsylvania Staatszeitung, which was merged into the Freiheitz Freund. He was admitted to the bar in 1852, read law under Hampton & Stowe, with whom he was in partnership in the law. He died in 1873, aged fifty-six years. Politically he was a republican. He married Miss Anna Hofmeister, a native of Ohio. Their son J. H., whose name heads this sketch, was educated in Pittsburgh Western University, and spent three years in Europe, in order to complete his education. He read law in Pittsburgh, was admitted to the bar in 1869, and has since followed his profession, residing in Glenfield. Mr. Mueller is interested in the production of natural gas; is president of the Bellevue & Glenfield Natural Gas company, and is an extensive oil-producer. Politically he is a republican.