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- "Biographical, genealogical and descriptive history of the first congressional district of New Jersey; illustrated ..".
Adon Wills Muller. a prominent citizen and farmer in Deptford town- ship. Gloucester county. New Jersey, was born in Gloucester city. Camden county, this state. December u. 1849. tl'^ *o" of Jacob Andrew Muller and Martha T. Wills. On his father's side he is of Swiss parentage. His mother is the daughter of Adon G. Wills, a family name long established in the state. His father emigrated from Switzerland after receiving a good education there, at the age of nineteen, and. arriving in America, settled in Gloucester. New Jersey. For a number of years he was the captain on a ferry-boat between Gloucester and Philadelphia. He later removed to Pennsylvania and for several years conducted a lumbering business in the Pocono moun- tains. Subsequently he removed to Deptford township. New Jersey, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and thirty-eight acres, upon which he made numerous improvements. He engaged in agriculture the balance of his life, dying in Deptford, March 3, 1895. His children were: Eliza W"., bom in 1840. who died in childhood: Jacob Andrew, deceased: Mary Sykes. the wife of Charles Smith; Robert Sykes. who resides near Sea Isle; Adon Wills: and Caroline C. who died in childhood. Adon Wills Muller. after attending the district schools of Deptford. con- tinued his education at Blackwood Academy. Leaving school he remained on his father's farm, and adopting the vocation of a farmer has since con- tinued that pursuit. Upon the death of his father he purchased his present farm, and is ranked among the solid and substantial farmers of his section. Politically Mr. Muller is a Republican and is the chairman of his township committee. He is also the fish and game warden for Gloucester county. His religious connections are with the Methodist Episcopal church.
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