BIO: Levi Musselman, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER XLIX.

         LOWER ALLEN TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF NEW CUMBERLAND.

  LEVI MUSSELMAN, farmer, P. O. Shiremanstown, is the only 
representative of this family in this county, and which came originally 
from Germany, but at what date the first one settled in Lancaster 
County nothing is known.  Christian Musselman was born in Lancaster 
County in 1796; came to Cumberland County in 1820, and took service 
with Christian Hurst on the farm now owned by Mrs. Musselman.  After 
the death of Mr. Hurst Mr. Musselman married his widow, and by her had 
three children - two sons and one daughter:  One son died in infancy; 
Levi, and Elizabeth, now the wife of Peter Musselman, of Adams County, 
Penn.  Levi Musselman was born, in 1827, on the Hurst farm, and has 
always followed the occupation of farming.  In 1849 he was married to 
Annie, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Nisley) Mumma, whose family 
history forms an important record.  Their married life was commenced on 
the farm, now the homestead, and there John the eldest son was born.  A 
few years later Mr. Musselman moved to the Hurst farm, and there 
Elizabeth and Fanny were born.  Of the other children, Kate was born on 
the Chris-

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tian Mumma farm, and Samuel, Jacob, Christian, Martin, Harry and Edward 
on the Musselman homestead.  Kate and Elizabeth are deceased, the 
former in her seventeenth and the latter in her twenty-fourth year.  
John married Annie Zimmerman; Samuel married Annie Hess; Jacob married 
Grace Hartman; Fanny is the wife of Jacob Bucher.  The married life of 
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Musselman has been an unexceptionally pleasant one.  
They have prospered financially, and have educated their children in 
that practical manner which makes the men and women of Cumberland 
County famous.