BIO:  Adam C. 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 445-446

ADAM C. MUSSELMAN, merchant, Fairfield, is a son of John Musselman, brother of 
Joseph, under whose name appears the genealgy of the older members of the 
family.  John Musselman was born November 12, 1809, and lived on the home-farm 
until his marriage, when he removed to a farm at that time belonging to his 
father, in Liberty Township.  In 1836 he was married to Susan M. Myers, born 
June 21, 1819, daughter of Adam Myers, who lived in this county, near Hanover, 
York County.  They had eight children:  Adam C., born February 8, 1838; Susan 
M., born in 1840, wife of M. P. Shields, now living in Michigan; Mary E., widow 
of James McCreary, living in Gettysburg; Laura, wife of E. M. Yount, living in 
Herndon, Va.; Amanda A., who was the wife of Wilson McCleary, both deceased; 
Alice, wife of Albert Sudler, of Somerset County, Md.; Amos S., married to Ella 
Hostetter, living in Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Fannie J., deceased wife of Rev. 
S. E. Smith, pastor of the Lutheran Church at Elvira, Clinton Co., Iowa.  The 
father of this family was a man of note.  He was a major in the State militia, 
was county commissioner; a member of the Legislature, to which he was elected in 
1856; and one of the principal promoters of the Lutheran Church in Fairfield, 
which he aided largely in building.  He died October 25, 1875, lacking a few 
days of being sixty-two years old.  His wife was a consistent Christian, who 
brought up her family in a manner which has left its impress upon their habits 
and character.  She died November 28, 1872, aged fifty-three years.  The subject 
of this sketch was born February 8, 1838, on his father’s farm, and after 
obtaining a common school education, attended Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, 
three terms.  He remained on the farm, and taught school one winter term.  
November 17, 1859, he was married to Lucinda Nunnemaker, born February 7, 1838, 
daughter of John Nunnemaker, then of Liberty Township, this county, and who died 
in Fairfield in September, 1856.  Mr. and Mrs. Musselman have had ten children, 
five dying in infancy; the five surviving are J. Elmer, born March 28, 1862, a 
graduate of Pennsylvania College and now a teller in the First National Bank of 
Gettysburg; Howard A., born July 5, 1865, a graduate of Bryant & Stratton’s 
Commercial College, at Baltimore, and a clerk in his father’s store; Carrie L., 
born October 19, 1869; Morris M., born July 13, 1873; and Alice Jeannette, born 
January 27, 1879.  Mr. Musselman continued farming until 1867, when he bought 
the interest of J. V. Danner, in the store of Danner & Shields in Fairfield; 
April 1, 1882, he bought Mr. Shields’ interest, and has since carried on 
business alone.  In 1883 he built a commodious store, rendered necessary by his 
increasing trade, the result of enterprise and integrity.  He has been for 
twenty years past justice of the peace, elected five consecutive terms; is a 
member of the Valley Home Lodge, No. 740, I. O. O. F.; is a prominent member of 
the Lutheran Church, as is also his wife, and has been for more than twenty 
years superintendent of the Sunday-school.  In politics Mr. Musselman is a 
Republican.