BIO: ALFRED M. MUSSELMAN, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 357-358
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    ALFRED M. MUSSELMAN, one of the well-known and prosperous young farmers of
  Monroe township, Cumberland county, was born in Silver Spring township, but
  ever since 1873 has been a resident of Monroe township, in which he was
  educated. He is a son of John Musselman, and a member of a fine old family of
  Lancaster and Cumberland counties.
    
    Samuel Musselman, grandfather of Alfred M., was born Aug. 12, 1793, in
  Lancaster county, and he died Aug. 27, 1868. He married the widow of John
  Martin, of Mt. Joy, Lancaster county, who was formerly Anna Eberly, and three
  children were born to the former union, one of whom survives. The five
  children born to the second marriage, which took place in 1826, were: John,
  Elizabeth, Anna, Catherine and Simon. In 1827 Samuel Musselman moved to
  Cumberland county, and settled on a good farm along the New Kingstown
  turnpike road, which he bought of William Bell, for $40 an acre, and later
  sold, for $210 an acre. In 1843 his wife united with the Evangelical Church,
  and she died July 10, 1849, aged fifty-two years, three months and eighteen
  days. In July, 1852, Samuel Musselman married the Widow Snavely, and they
  moved to New Kingstown. Mr. Musselman died Aug. 27, 1868, much lamented by
  all who knew him as he was a good, Christian man. He was very prominent in
  the Evangelical Association, and served a long time as church trustee helping
  to build the church at New Kingstown. He was survived sixteen years by his
  second wife, who died Aug. 8, 1884. at New Kingstown, aged eighty-one years,
  five months and three days, and was buried by the side of Mr. Snavely in St.
  John's cemetery.
    
    John Musselman, father of Alfred M., was born in October, 1826, and was a
  successful farmer in Monroe township, where he bought a farm. In 1850 he
  married Margaret Musser, daughter of Jacob Musser, of Cumberland county, who
  died in 1892, aged sixty-three years. His death took place Jan. 21, 1901. His
  children were: John Amos, born Oct. 3, 1853, died in 1854; S. Emory, born Feb.
  16, 1857, resides in Monroe township; Lizzie E., born Jan. 13, 1859, married
  Dr. James W. Young, who died in a hospital at Harrisburg in 1886; Alfred M.,
  born March 2, 1861; Laura, born in 1863, died in 1867; Alice L., born Feb.
  27, 1865, married C. R. Firestone, of Monroe township; John, born June 22,
  1870, is deceased; Dessia A., born Nov. 12, 1872, died Jan. 12, 1873; Anna A.
  married Rev. James C. Reeser in 1879, now stationed in Carlisle; Rev. Samuel
  Oliver married Carrie Fulton, who died in Kansas, and he married (second)
  Anna Gensler; and Mary, who married John Basehore, in 1892, resides in
  Middlesex township.
    
    Alfred M. Musselman has been a resident of Monroe township the greater part
  of his life. He is one of the prominent Republican
    
    358  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
  politicians of this locality, taking a very active part in public affairs,
  serving on important committees, and as a delegate to various conventions.
  Fraternally, he is a member of the Masons at Carlisle, and Knights of Pythias
  at Allen.