Oscar Otto Mueller was born March 29, 1877 on a farm near Van Meter, Iowa. He was the son of George and Catherine (Schott) Mueller who both emigrated from Germany. He graduated from the Iowa State Normal School in 1903 and then filled the position as principal of schools at Stacyville, Iowa for two years. He graduated from the University of Iowa in June 1908 with a degree in law. After earning his degree, he relocated to Lewistown, Montana September 11, 1908 where he filled the position of assistant county attorney in 1909 and 1910. Then, in 1917, he was appointed city attorney. He was elected mayor of the City of Lewistown and served one term from 1929 to 1931. Oscar was an active member of the Masons since 1903. He was also a long-time member of the Outlook Club, Rotary, and the Chamber of Commerce. On June 9, 1915 he married Josephine Cook of White Sulphur Springs, the daughter of the Montana Pioneer Charles W. Cook. They had three children, Charles, Glenn, and George. Charles died in infancy in 1917. In addition to his work as an attorney, Oscar was an active amateur historian. He was interested in Central Montana history and contributed many historical articles to local newspapers including the Great Falls Tribune. The first issue of the Montana Magazine of History included his work “The Central Montana Vigilante Raids of 1884”. He also made many material contributions to the Montana Historical Society in Helena. He was also an amateur archaeologist and paleontologist. He collected geological specimens for the U.S. Geological Survey. In honor of his work, three new species were named for him. Oscar studied Native American pictographs and artifacts found near the Judith River. He was responsible for the transfer of a Native American mummy to Montana State University as well as the publishing of sketches of prehistoric drawings in Central Montana. As a supporter of the Lewistown library he was a member of the trustees and served as chairman until his death. Oscar Mueller died January 3, 1964 at the age of 86. Alice Josephine (Cook) Mueller was born on March 23, 1883 in Unity, Montana. Josephine was educated privately on her father’s ranch in Unity and in the schools of White Sulphur Springs. Starting in 1902, she was a life-long member of Martha Chapter No. 11 O.E.S. and served as Worthy Matron from 1909 to 1910. Josephine was also a long-term member of the Julia Hancock Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons and Daughters of the Montana Pioneers and the First United Presbyterian Church of Lewistown. While traveling between her desert claim near Ryegate and her home in White Sulphur Springs she met Oscar Mueller in a boarding house in Lewistown. After a lengthy correspondence they were married. She was also fond of reading and writing poetry. Josephine Mueller died on September 3, 1976 at the age of 93. George Donald Mueller was born on November 4, 1921 in Lewistown Montana. He graduated from Lewistown High School in 1939 and attended an additional year of post graduate work. In 1940, he went to Bozeman to attend Montana State College (Montana State University). World War II interrupted his education when he was drafted in 1943 after two deferments. George served mostly overseas in the European theater reaching the rank of Private First Class. He was honorably discharged from his station in Frankfurt Germany in February 1946. After the war he returned to Montana State College and graduated in 1948 with a degree in applied science. He spent the summers of 1948 and 1949 working on Yogo Peak at the fire lookout station. In 1950, he started working for the U.S. Weather Service in Meachem, Oregon. George transferred to the weather station in Great Falls Montana after six years of service in Oregon. He worked in Great Falls until retiring in 1976. He was a member of the Al Bedo Shrine Temple of Billings and the Central Montana Shrine Club. George was a member of the Lewistown Rotary Club serving as the sergeant-at-arms for many years. Additionally, he was a president of the Outlook Club, a president of the Central Montana Historical Association, and a president of the Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers. He contributed to the Central Montana Medical Center, the Lewistown Boys and Girls Club, and the Montana Historical Society. Like his father, Oscar Mueller, he actively researched and wrote about Montana history. His articles appeared in the Lewistown News-Argus Christmas Editions and in the Montana Magazine of Western History. He was engaged to Marjory Simonton who passed away August 20, 1966 before they could marry. George Mueller died on October 15, 2016 at the age of 94. Glenn Herman Mueller was born on February 18, 1918 in Lewistown Montana. In 1932, he graduated from Lewistown Highschool. He received his college education from the University of Montana in Missoula where he graduated with a B.S. in forestry in 1940. During his summer breaks in college he worked as a lookout in the Bob Marshall. Glenn was a Junior Range Examiner for the U.S. Department of Agriculture until 1942 when he was drafted into the army. He was stationed in the European theater of World War II and traveled between England, North Africa, Italy, Germany, and France. Before he was honorably discharged in September of 1945 he reached the grade and rank of T/Sgt. CE. Glenn married Helen Weinmeister of Nashua, Montana on November 9, 1952. Glenn and Helen met in Malta in the early 1950s while he was working for the Soil Conservation Service and she was the Home Economics teacher at Malta Highschool. Her parents, Jacob and Sophie Michel Weinmeister, were originally from Ditl, Russia. They had three children, Glenda Lou born May 26, 1954, Sally Josephine born May 27, 1956, and Ruth Ellen born June 17, 1960. In 1956, he accepted a job as assistant ranger and the family moved to White Sulphur Springs. Less than a year later, Glenn became the district ranger for the Meyer’s Creek District in the Beartooth Mountains. After five years, in 1962, he moved to Libby, Montana where he worked for the Forest Service Supervisor’s office as the lands and recreation staffer for the Kootneai National Forest until he retired. After retiring he served in the Montana legislature for two terms. He was fond of hiking and nature which was reflected in an article he wrote for The Inside Trail in 2008. Glenn Mueller died March 2, 2018 at the age of 100. Charles Wheeler Cook, born 1838 in Unity, Maine to parents Daniel and Elizabeth Hussey Cook, arrived in Montana in September 1864. He was employed in the mines until 1869. Cook was one of the first stockmen of the state and a member of the Cook-Folsom-Peterson party of 1869 that made the first exploration of the Yellowstone Park region. In 1872 he located the ranch property on the east slope of the Big Belts, ten miles west of White Sulphur Springs. Before his retirement he had developed a large sheep ranch consisting of over 10,000 acres of deeded land and running at times over 10,000 sheep. Charles married Abigail Kennicott, born in 1849 and daughter of James and Abigail Wells Kennicott, in 1880. They had three children Mary Elizabeth (Maidie) 1881-1903, Alice Josephine 1883-1976, and Donald 1891-1960. Donald Cook attended Montana State College in Bozeman. He received his master’s degree from New Mexico State College in Las Cruces and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Columbia University. He taught chemistry and was the Dean of Columbia’s School of Tropical Medicine in San Juan, Puerto Rico. While in Las Cruces he met Ruth Bronson and the two married in 1919. Charles W. Cook died on January 30, 1927 at the age of 88.