BIO: JOHN B. MUSSER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 358
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    JOHN B. MUSSER, one of the representative men and good farmers of the Third
  Ward, Borough of Mechanicsburg, and living on his well cultivated farm of
  forty acres, was born May 28, 1862, at Camp Hill. 
    
    John N. Musser, the paternal grandfather of John B. Musser, was born in
  Lancaster county, Pa., where his life was passed as a farmer. His first
  marriage was to Mary Brenneman, of that county, and they had six children,
  namely: Henry; Daniel B., a resident of Eberly's mills; Martha, wife of
  Martin Bricker, of Hampden township; Susan, who died at the age of nineteen
  years; and John and Benjamin, both of whom died in childhood. His second
  marriage was to Fanny Horst, also of Lancaster county, and they had one
  child, Jacob, who resides north of Camp Hill.
    
    Henry Musser, father of John B., was born in York county, Pa., not far from
  New Cumberland, and there was given a common school education. His occupation
  was farming. He married Mary Bates, a daughter of Samuel Bates, of near
  Mechanicsburg, and they had a family of six children, as follows: John B.;
  Annie Mary, who is the wife of Elmer Eppley, of Camp Hill; George W., who
  married Ethel Gilbert, of Shiremanstown, and has two children, Walter (at
  home) and Elizabeth (in Shiremanstown); one that died in infancy; Benjamin,
  who died in childhood; and Henry S., of Camp Hill, who married Jennie Cross,
  and they have three children, all at home, Ethel, Alma and Margaret.
    
    John B. Musser received a common school education at Camp Hill, which he
  completed at the age of nineteen years. After leaving school he spent one
  year on his father's farm, and one year in the iron mills at West Fairview.
  Mr. Musser then made an extended trip through Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin,
  being occupied during this period in farming and operating a creamery. After
  his return to his home, March 3, 1887, he married Annie B. Basehore, daughter
  of Samuel A. Basehore, of Mechanicsburg. They have had three children, namely:
  Almeda Blanche, who died in infancy; Mary Katherine, who is at home; and Lena
  Mary, a student at Mechanicsburg. Mrs. Musser is a member of the Reformed Church.
    
    Mr. Musser has been a life-long member of the Republican party and takes a
  very active interest in campaign work. On various occasions he has been
  honored by his fellow citizens by election to office, serving as judge of
  elections, both in East Pennsboro township and in Fairview township, York
  county, being the holder of that office at the time of the inauguration there
  of the first Baker Ballot law. For the past three years he has represented the
  Third Ward of Mechanicsburg in the Borough Council; in 1904 was re-elected for
  three years; is one of the managers of the Allen and East Pennsboro Horse
  Company, and is one of the trustees of the Junior American Mechanics. His
  official as well as his private life has been one of honor and uprightness,
  and he justly commands the respect and esteem of all who know him.