Husser, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Robert Vernon, Nov., 2000

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>From "Individual Studies of Place Names in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, James Valsin 
Coumes, Tangipahoa Parish Resource Unit, Tangipahoa Parish School Board, 1972."

HUSSER

Husser is located north of Zemurray Park on La. Highway 445 and in the southwest corner of 
T4S-R9E.

The first Husser in this rural community was Lawrence Husser, a blacksmith, who came with 
his wife from Alsace-Lorraine.  His son, Hypolite L. Husser, was the first postmaster when a 
post office was established in the community in 1888.  Hypolite Husser once had the 
distinction of being the oldest living postmaster in the United States.  Postal Records also 
show that on July 17, 1888, the Husser Post Office was established with Hypolite L. Husser as
its first postmaster.  The Husser community took its name for the Husser family, and more 
specifically from its first postmaster.