BIO:  Aaron MUSSELMAN, Hamiltonban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 444-445

AARON MUSSELMAN, farmer, P.O. Fairfield, is a son of David Musselman, who was a 
brother of Joseph, under whose name is given a history of the ancestors of this 
well known family.  A sketch of David Musselman is given under the name of David 
R., an elder brother of our subject, who was the fifth son.  Aaron Musselman was 
born July 22, 1847, on the farm now occupied by Samuel Walter, and lived there 
until he was twenty-four years old, when he removed to Fairfield with his 
mother, his father having died some time before.  In the spring of 1877 he went 
to Kansas, and some months after moved to the Indian Territory, coming home in 
December of the same year, and then clerking for brother David R., for three 
years.  He is now farming a place in the neighborhood of Fairfield, renting his 
own farm near the mountain.  He and his wife are prominent members of musical 
circles.  He has been for twenty years leader of the choirs of both the Lutheran 
and Reformed Churches in Fairfield, and on the organization of the band in that 
place, in 1869, became its conductor, filling that position for eleven years.  
Mrs. Annie Musselman was for twelve years a teacher of instrumental music, and 
all of that time organist of the Reformed Church, and for three or four years 
also in the Lutheran Church.  She is a daughter of Dr. Robert Watson, of 
Fairfield, and was born January 16, 1856, at Funkstown, Franklin County, Penn.  
Mr. and Mrs. Musselman have had three children:  Margie Lelia, born January 20, 
1881, died in infancy; Edna Luella, born December 13, 1882 and David Clyde, born 
April 26, 1886.  Mrs. Musselman belongs to the Reformed Church.  Mr. Musselman 
has held several responsible township offices; is a member of Valley Home Lodge, 
I. O. O. F., and also of the Lutheran Church.  He bears an excellent reputation 
as an upright man and a good citizen.  He is a Republican in politics since he 
first voted, voting for Gen. Grant in the fall of 1868, casting his first vote 
in the year.