Biography of Adam W.  Husselman, pages 604/605.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



Adam W. Husselman

The gentlemen to a review of whose honorable career we now call the 
attention of the reader is one of the representative citizens of DeKalb 
county and one of best known and most substantial farmers in Grant 
township, being the owner of a fine landed estate. An analyzation of 
his life work shows that he has been dependent upon inheritance or 
influential friends for what he has acquired, but has through his 
continued effort and capable management gained a desired property 
whereby he is classed among the self-made and influential men of the 
community. Adam W. Husselman was born on November 9, 1859, in the 
western part of Grant township, DeKalb county, Indiana, and is the son 
of Samuel and Amanda (King) Husselman. Samuel Husselman, who was one of 
the honored old pioneers of Grant township, was born on December 11, 
1827, in Wayne county. Ohio, and is the son of John and Catherine 
(Miser) Husselman. A history of his parents and the ancestral record 
appears in the sketch of Henry Husselman elsewhere in this work, Samuel 
Husselman was but fourteen years old when his parents brought him to 
DeKalb county in 1842, and they located in the wilderness about half 
way between Waterloo and Auburn. When he was but twenty-three years of 
age his father gave him one hundred and sixty acres of uncleared land, 
to the clearing of which he immediately applied his energies and he 
recalls the hard plowing among the roots and stumps and the toil 
incident to the placing of the land under cultivation. At the age of 
twenty-three years Samuel Husselman married Amanda King, who was born 
about thirty miles form Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of John and 
Catherine King.  The parents came to DeKalb county, Indiana, in 1846, 
locating northeast of Auburn, near where the county farm is now 
situated. Samuel Husselman has remained on the farm where he now lives 
during all the subsequent years and for many years has been numbered 
among the most respected and substantial citizens of his locality. To 
him and his wife were born four children, two sons and two daughters, 
namely: Emmeline, the wife of Jacob Amstutz, who lives in section 6, 
Grant township, this county; Adam lives in section 18, of this 
township; Lewis who lives with his father and is the owner of eighty 
acres south of his father’s place, and Eda, who is the wife of John 
Monroe,  lives in the eastern part of Richland township. Mrs. 
Husselman, the mother of these children, died on April 1, 1911. Mr. 
Husselman is an earnest and faithful member of the United Brethren 
church, and in his daily life he has long endeavored to exemplify the 
teaching of the Divine Master. Adam W. Husselman was reared on the 
paternal farmstead and secured his education in the district schools of 
the neighborhood. After his marriage in 1885 he began farming for 
himself in the southwestern part of Grant township on land which he 
rented for ten years, but finally bought. His place comprises eighty 
acres and is most elegantly located, being improved to an extent that 
reflects great credit on the owner. The splendid and attractive 
residence, commodious and substantial barns and other outbuildings have 
all been erected by Mr. Husselman and he adopts modern methods in his 
agricultural operations, Realizing gratifying profits from his efforts. 
When he moved upon this land it contained a lot of timber, but this has 
all been cleared away and now all the crops common to this section of 
the country are raised here. And in connection Mr. Husselman also gives 
some attention to live stock, which he has found to be a profitable 
source of income.  On August 18, 1885, Mr. Husselman married Amy 
McCague, who was born in Richland township, this county, the daughter 
of John and Julia (Wyrick) McCague, her birth having occurred on 
October 14, 1860, and her death occurred on August 2, 1912, at the age 
of fifty-one years.  At the age of twenty years she was taken into full 
membership of the Lutheran church at Sedan, and lived a faithful and 
consistent life until her death. A faithful wife and loving mother, a 
loyal neighbor, she was sincerely mourned by all who knew her, for her 
life has been a blessed benediction to the community in which she 
lived. To Mr. and Mrs. Husselman were born three children, namely: 
Howard Earl, Donald Roscoe and Viola Ruth. Howard is helping to operate 
his uncle’s farm near his father’s place, and Donald and Viola are at 
home with their father. Quiet and assuming in his manner, but sociable 
with his friends, Mr. Husselman has won a large and admiring 
acquaintance throughout the locality and is counted a good citizen. He 
gives his support to every movement having for its object the 
advancement of the general welfare of the community.

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Arlene Goodwin

Auburn, Indiana

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