Jackson County OR Archives Obituaries.....Muller, Max July 20, 1902 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth C jaxsearch@hotmail.com July 22, 2006, 8:34 pm Medford (Oregon) Mail, Friday, 3 Oct 1902, p. 6, c. 6 The following eulogy and resolute tone were adopted at a regular meeting of Banner Lodge No. 23, A. O. U. W., held in Jacksonville on August 22, 1902. Brother Max Muller, a charter member and a Past Master of Banner Lodge, and for many years its Financier, died on the 20th day of July, 1902, at his home in Jacksonville, Oregon. He was born at Reckendorf, Bavaria, about sixty-seven years ago, and in the year 1851 he came to America, and four years later to Jacksonville, Oregon, where he continuously resided up to the time of his death. Brother Muller was a useful citizen of the state and community in which he lived. He served the people of Jackson county faithfully and well in various positions of responsibility which they called him to fill. He was several times elected county treasurer and county clerk. For eighteen consecutive years he was postmaster of the Town of Jacksonville. In any of these places he never lost sight of the principle that “a public office is a public trust,” and he never forgot or neglected the general interests committed to his care and keeping. Brother Muller was a splendid example of the best American citizenship, and whether in public or private life he was without reproach. On the 20th day of last July, after enduring the wearisome toils of life’s journey, he crossed over the great silent river, and entered into rest beneath the shade of celestial trees on the farther shore. He was one of the pioneers of the Ancient Order of United Workmen in Oregon. Through long years of the most intimate association in the lodge room, on the street, or within his home, we learned to look upon him, not as a father in Israel, but as a father in Workmanship, and to him this lodge owes a great debt of gratitude. He was a man of the strictest integrity. He was open and honorable in his dealings with his fellow men, sincere and frank in his demeanor, and simple in his habits. His home life was as a bright summer day, gladdened by the sunshine of a faithful wife and devoted children. By his death a void is left in the ranks of Workmanship which is not easily supplied, and Banner Lodge has lost one of its most devoted members and a tried and trusted leader. [Following are some resolutions which have no added genealogical information.] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/jackson/obits/m/muller2017gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb