Los Angeles County
Biographies
OSCAR C.
MUELLER
MUELLER,
OSCAR C., Attorney at law, Los Angeles, California, is a native of Denver, Colorado,
where he was born September 7, 1876. He is the son of Otto Mueller and Nettie (Kette) Mueller. On April 5, 1900, at Los Angeles, he married Ivy S. Schoder, of which union there is one child, Douglas S.
Mueller.
When
Mr. Mueller was a child of but four years of age his family moved to California and settled at Los Angeles. He entered the public schools of
that city in 1881. From 1890 to 1892 he studied at the Berkeley Gymnasium, Berkeley, California,
when he returned to Los Angeles and during the
two years following was a student at Occidental
College of that city.
After
finishing his studies at Occidental College he took up the study of law in the offices of
the late Judge W. H. Wilde of Los
Angeles, where he remained during the years 1895, 1896
and 1897. He read law extensively and his special readings were centered on
corporation and probate matters. In 1898 he took a brief law course at the University of Virginia.
On
returning from his law studies in the East, he commenced the practice of law in
Los Angeles,
and has continued in this profession down to date. His labors in that city have
been attended with decided success and he is now marked as an attorney of wide
repute. He has become the attorney for many of the leading Los Angeles corporations. He is the legal
adviser for numerous large estates, a class of work that forms a considerable
part of his professional duties.
Aside
from his local corporation work he is associated with quite a number of large
outside corporations, whose coast or southwestern representative he is in all
legal affairs necessitating attention there.
During
recent years Mr. Mueller has figured prominently in the Federal courts in
irrigation litigation and has had much to do with the establishment of the
validity of bonds issued in connection with irrigation projects. One of his
notable cases in this line of work was that of the People of the State of California versus the
Perris Irrigation District, which was fought out in
the Supreme Court of the State.
Mr.
Mueller was one of the originators of the annexation project by which the town
of San Pedro was annexed to the city of Los Angeles. When the
movement in 1906 obtained sufficient impetus, the Chamber of Commerce of Los
Angeles appointed a committee known as the Consolidation Committee, with Mr.
Mueller as chairman, and these men were instrumental in bringing about the
final annexation to the city of the little ocean town, making Los Angeles a
seaport city.
He
is a typical Southern Californian, and anything that speaks for the welfare of
the community receives his moral and financial approval and support. As a man
interested in Los Angeles
and its progress, he has served two terms as director of the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce and similarly for the Los Angeles Bar Association. He is a
believer in clean politics and works with his party to that end. He is an
active Republican.
He
is a worker in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and has done much to further
the cause of that organization.
He
is well known in the club and lodge circles of Los Angeles, where he is a member of the
Masonic Orders of both Rites.
He
is also a member of the California Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club and of the
Jonathan Club.
Transcribed
4-30-11 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 642, International News
Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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