Husband Charles Sumner Musser, M.D. 1 2
Born: 19 Nov 1856 - Millheim, Centre Co, PA 2
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Father: Dr. Philip Timothy Musser (1828-1889) 3 4
Mother: Mary Jane Mumbauer (1832-Aft 1898) 1 4
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General Notes: Husband - Charles Sumner Musser, M.D.
His education was begun in Millheim, Centre County, Pennsylvania, one of his early teachers being Israel Musser. When a lad of ten he accompanied the family to Aaronsburg, where he grew to manhood, and the rudimentary education received in the common schools of that town was supplemented with a course in the Aaronsburg Academy. He also attended Penn Hall Academy. In the fall of 1873, he attended Dickinson Seminary, at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for two years, and in the fall of 1875 he entered Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster, and was graduated in 1878. In the fall of the same year he began his professional studies in the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, and in 1880 received his degree of M. D. from that school. Under the firm name of P. T. Musser & Son he began his practice with his father at Aaronsburg, and their partnership lasted until the latter's death.
In 1882 he took a post-graduate course at Jefferson Medical College, and in 1884 availed himself of the opportunity for further study in advanced lines at the Philadelphia Polyclinic. As will be inferred, Dr. Musser is an untiring student of his chosen science. In May, 1885, he sailed from New York on the Red Star liner "Westerland," and on landing at Antwerp he proceeded to Vienna, where he spent a year in the "Vienna General Hospital" and the Polyclinic. Before his return to the United States he visited, as a tourist, other parts of Europe, including England, seeing the leading cities and most noted scenery. The voyage home was taken on the "Germanic," of the White Star line.
He was a member of various societies-the Centre County Medical Society; the Pennsylvania Medical Society; the West Branch Medical Society; the Northwestern Medical Society of Philadelphia; the American Medical Association; and the American Academy of Medicine. He was a member of the Ninth International Medical Congress, which convened in Washington in 1887, and of the Pan-American Medical Congress in 1893. He also belonged to the American Academy of Social and Political Science, the headquarters of which were at Philadelphia, and he was one of the consulting staff of the Philipsburg Hospital, a State Institution at Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, and U. S. Examining Surgeon for Pensions at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
Socially he was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Centre Hall, of the Commandery at Bellefonte, and of the well-known college fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi.
The Doctor was no politician, but he took keen interest in the success of the Republican principles, and represented his township at conventions and in the central committee of his county.
He was unmarried as late as 1898.