Musser, Charles O.

MUSSER

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/10/2007 at 22:54:03

Charles O. Musser

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.116, Hazel Dell Twp.)
Charles O. Musser, farmer, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in Millwood, Knox Co., Ohio, July 17, 1842, son of John and Caroline A. (Souls) Musser, natives of Pennsylvania; he, born May 21, 1817, in Somerset County, Ohio, was a cabinet-maker by trade, and died in Pottawattamie County, Iowa in October, 1868; she, born near Gettysburg April 11, 1822, is the mother of nine children. Mr. Musser came to Pottawattamie County with his parents in May, 1854, and was engaged in farming till twenty-one years of age, when he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-ninth Iowa Volunteers, and served till the close of the war. He was present at the battles of Helen and Little Rock, Ark.; was in the Camden campaign, and at the siege of Mobile; he was also actively engaged in the Yazoo Pass expedition. He was mustered out as Sergeant August 10, 1856; and returned home August 29. Mr. Musser was married, in this county, November 26, 1867, to Emily J. Triplett, born in Ohio April 15, 1849, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Pollock) Triplett, he born in Virginia in 1827, she born in Pennsylvania in 1829. Mr. and Mrs. Musser have four children - John Thomas, Sarah C., Charles F. and Jessie M. Mr. Musser is engaged in general farming and fruit-growing. He has held the various offices of his township, and was census-taker of 1880. He is a Presbyterian, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a Republican.