From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 780. City of La Crosse FRED MUELLER, wholesale liquor dealer, was born in 1822, near Coblentz, Germany; came to America in 1851, and lived in Newark, N. J., about two years and in New York City about six months; came to Milwaukee in 1853, and to La Crosse in 1854. In July of that year, he started the second butcher-shop in La Crosse County, with Louis Pammel (now a farmer living near the city). He continued in that business till 1862, then went into the brewing business in company with Jacob Franz (now of Sioux City, Iowa); was in that business about eight years in the old Eagle Brewery, which he helped build. In 1870, he sold out his interest in the brewery and spent two months traveling in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, then came back to La Crosse and bought out the liquor business of John Weber, which he has carried on till the present time on Third street. Mr. Mueller has built six or seven dwellings in La Crosse, and still owns two of them. He also has an 80-acre farm near the city. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]