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NICHOLAS MUGLER
One of Mount Shasta’s leading industries is the ice plant
owned and operated by Nicholas Mugler, who is
building up a large and steadily increasing trade through this section of Siskiyou
county. He was born in Salina, Kansas, on the 16th
of December, 1878, and is a son of Peter and Mary (Wildermuth)
Mugler, the latter born in Geneseo,
Illinois. The father was born in Hamburg, Germany, and after coming to this
country located in Salina, Kansas, where he engaged in the brewery business. He
was the first brewer to be put out of business by the United States government.
Kansas being the first state to go dry, the case of the United States versus
Peter Mugler was the first case tried. Having thus
lost his property, Mr. Mugler, in 1885, came to
California and bought a brewery at Red Bluff, which he operated for three
years, when the plant was destroyed by fire. In 1888 he came to Sisson, now
Mount Shasta, and operated a brewery for a time. He also established and ran a
bottling works for a while. His death occurred in 1917. To him and his wife
were born nine children, eight of whom are living.
Nicholas Mugler received his
early education in the grade schools and took a commercial course in the
Sacramento Business College. He was engaged in the bottling business in Kansas
City, Missouri, and in Denver, Colorado, after which he traveled considerably
in that line of business. Later he bought his father’s bottling works at Mount
Shasta, which he conducted for a while, and then transformed it into an ice
plant, with a capacity of three hundred tons daily. This plant is modern in
every respect, and is one of the most important enterprises of this locality.
Mr. Mugler was united in
marriage to Miss Edith Chambers, of Falls City, Oregon, and they are the
parents of three children, as follows: Marjorie, a teacher in the schools of
Tracy, California, and the wife of Cecil Conner, a radio electrical engineer;
Gladys, the wife of Carl Salts, a saw filer; and Mary, who is a student in the
University of California, at Berkeley. Mr. Mugler
is a member of the Masonic order and he and his wife are members of the Order
of the Eastern Star. They take a live interest in everything concerning the
welfare and progress of their community and are very highly esteemed by their
fellow citizens.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
02 June 2010.
Source: Wooldridge, J.W.Major
History of Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 2, Pages 147-148. Pioneer Historical Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Marie Hassard..
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