Later Life
Muilholland formally retired in November 1929. In retirement, he began writing an autobiography, but never completed it. Shortly before his death, he consulted on the Hoover Dam and Colorado River Aqueduct projects. He died in 1935 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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