Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Musselman, F.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   F. MUSSELMAN publisher, P.O. Quakertown, Pa.  The 
Musselman family are of Swiss origin, and the progenitor of 
the name was Samuel, who came to this country from 
Switzerland about the year 1725, and settled in what is now 
Milford township.  Michael was one of his sons, who married 
A. Moyer, by whom he had three sons and two daughters.  The 
eldest was Samuel, the father of Franklin, who married 
Catherine Groff and had one son, Franklin, born December 20, 
1850, in Milford township, and removed with his parents in 
infancy to Philadelphia, where he was reared to maturity and 
brought up in a store.  In 1871 he removed to Quakertown, 
where he engaged in the manufacture of handles.  In 1882 he 
moved to the Shenandoah valley, where he carried on the 
lumber business until the spring of 1885, when he returned 
to Quakertown, where he has since resided.  May 14, 1878, he 
was married to Hattie, a daughter of M.B. and Elamanda 
(Headman) Fellman.  They have three children: Elmer, Elsie 
and Samuel.  Since his maturity he has been identified with 
the temperance cause and has labored hard to advance its 
interests.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church 
and is chorister of the same.  He is also a member of the 
Good Templars, Knights of Pythias, and of Quakertown lodge, 
A. Y. M., No. 512.