User:Henry J. Muller

Henry Julien Muller - born to Shirley Ann Muller(neé Shirley Ann Hochschild, aka Shirley Patton)and to Armand Duvall Muller on March 15, 1961, at the Sanatorio Español in Mexico City.

Background -

Henry's maternal grandfather was Frederick "Fritz" Hochschild, a German Jewish lawyer from Frankfurt, Germany, who had relocated to Mexico City just a Hitler rose to power in Germany. He met and subsequently married Henry's maternal grandmother, Kathleen "Kitty" Patton. Henry's mother, Shirley Ann Hochschild, was in born in Mexico City on October 30, 1936.

Kitty Patton's father, Shirley Patton, an attorney for Shell-Mex (an Anglo-Mexican joint-venture to develop Mexico's newly discovered oil reserves)had relocated to Mexico from India by way of Victoria, B.C., and found suitable employment as an attorney, helping represent the business interests of a variety of British companies seeking to "do business" in Mexico. Kitty was born in the oil-town of Tampico, in the state of Tamaulipas, on Mexico's Gulf coast.

Henry's paternal grandfather, Julien Muller, was born in Paris in 1899 and emigrated to the US in 1901. Carolyn Smale, born in Loudon County, Virginia. Julien and Carolyn met and married in Washington, D. C. where Julien worked for the Washington Star, the sister publication and evening edition of the Washington Post. Henry's father, Armand, was born in Washington, D. C. on June 3, 1930.

Henry's father, Armand, joined the Army just as the Korean War was beginning. At the time, the US Army was not accepting married men. Armand had married Georgia Coleman Jennings. Her father was cellist with National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.. Armand was informed that the Army's 955th Topographic Company was accepting surveyors so he joined that outfit, essentially joining the Army through a "backdoor". He then transferred to the Regular Army and served with the 3rd Armored Cavalry, reaching the rank of Sergeant First Class. Upon completion of his second stint in the military, Armand decided to avail himself of the provision in the GI Bill that essentially provided funding for soldiers seeking to pursue a college education in the school of their choice, provided the college was one of hundreds approved for the program. Armand's plan was put in one year of college studies in order to fulfill an Army requirement for enlisted soldiers seeking to move up the enlisted ranks and make Master Sergeant. He and his Army buddies decided that the GI Bill would provide the means to travel and get to "know the world", the first stop on their globe-trotting ways was Mexico City, where he enrolled in what was then known as Mexico City College, and is know known as the University of the Americas, located in Cholula, Puebla. This is how Armand ended up in Mexico in 1957. To be continued....