Henry R. Musser ^{1 2}

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Book: Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, 1903. ²
The paternal ancestry of Mr. Musser is of Swiss extraction. Peter Musser, the great-grandfather, was of Swiss parentage, and was an early resident of Lancaster county. He married a Miss Dietz, and they had five children : John, Christian, Henry, Peter and Annie. Of these, Peter was born in Lancaster county, Nov. 29, 1776. He married Eliza- beth Rohrer, of Lancaster county, born Aug. 14, 1788. She died Oct. 8, 1822, in her thirty-fifth year, while her husband lived to the age of seventy- one, passing away July 2, 1848. Their children were : Henry R., Mary, Annie, Joseph and Betsey.


Henry R. Musser was born in West Hempfield township June 18, 1808. In early life he adopted the vocation of a cattle dealer and butcher, which he pursued at Lancaster, Marietta and Columbia. In 1846 he removed to Fairfield, Ohio, where he continued his business successfully until death, June 1, 1873, in his sixty-third year. He became a prominent business man of Fairfield, and wasi there actively interested in the public schools. He was married three times. By his first wife. Miss Shirk, he had one child, Henry S., now of Fair- field, Ohio. By his second wife, Annie, daughter of John and Barbara Mouk, there were six chil- dren, namely: Elias H., a tailor of Rochester, Ind. ; Thomas Jefferson, who died in Fairfield, Ohio; Benjamin Franklin, proprietor of a meal; market in Darke county, Ohio; Andrew Jackson, whose sketch appears herewith ; Barbara Ann, who married John Horn, a farmer of West Hempfield township ; and Isabella, who died in infancy. The third wife of Henry R. Musser was Fanny Bucher, and the children by that union were : Joseph, de- ceased ; Emanuel, a butcher of Dayton, Ohio ; Eliza- beth ; Isabella ; David, a plasterer ; and George, a traveling salesman, all residents of Ohio.


Andrew Jackson Musser was born at Marietta, Lancaster county, March 2, 1841. Bereft of a mother's care by death, his home from his fourth year was his maternal grandfather, John Mouk, in West Hempfield.

Henry married Fannie Bucher, daughter of Joseph L. Bucher Sr. and Mary, on 20 Nov 1847 in , Lancaster, PA. (Fannie Bucher was born on 19 Nov 1822 in Marietta, Lancaster, PA,^{3 4} died on 8 Oct 1913 in Fairfield, Greene, OH ^{3 4} and was buried in Fairborn: Fairfield Cemetery, Greene, OH ^{3 4}.)