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Early Origins of the Mussey family

The surname Mussey was first found in Brittany, where they have held a family seat since ancient times.

Early History of the Mussey family

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Mussey Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Musy, Musie, Musies, Mussy, Mussie, Mussies, Mussey, Mousy, Mousie, Musset, Musy, Musse, de la Musse, LaMusse, DeMusse, Mussi, Musi, Mousies, Moussy, Moussie, Moussies, Mucy, Mucey, Mucie, Mucies, Moucie, Moucies, Moucey, de Musy and many more.

Early Notables of the Mussey family

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United States Mussey migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Mussey Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
  • Abraham Mussey, who settled in New England in 1634 aboard the ship "Mary & John"
  • John Mussey, who settled in New England in 1634 aboard the ship "Mary & John" [1]
  • Robert Mussey, who arrived in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1634 [1]
Mussey Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • E C Mussey, who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1851 [1]

Contemporary Notables of the name Mussey (post 1700) +

  • William Howard "Bill" Mussey (1913-2000), American Republican politician who served in the Ohio General Assembly (1973-1979)
  • Dexter Mussey (1811-1890), American politician, Member of Michigan State House of Representatives from Macomb County 3rd District, 1855-62; Speaker of the Michigan State House of Representatives, 1861-62 [2]
  • Ellen Spencer Mussey (1850-1936), née Spencer, American lawyer, educator, and pioneer in the field of women's rights to legal education, daughter of Platt Rogers Spencer, a reformer and promoter of the Spencerian Method, wife of Reuben D. Mussey Jr
  • Reuben D. "RD" Mussey Jr. (1833-1892), Union Army colonel during the American Civil War and a distinguished lawyer, an important recruiter of black men into the United States Colored Troops, President Andrew Johnson's private secretary (1865), husband of Ellen Spencer Mussey, son of Reuben Dimond Mussey, Sr
  • Reuben Dimond Mussey Sr. (1780-1866), American physician, surgeon, vegetarian and an early opponent of tobacco, 4th President of the American Medical Association
  • Thomas Mussey, American politician, Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives from New London, 1830 [2]
  • Francine Mussey (1897-1933), born Marcelle Fromholt, a French film actress of the 1920s and ended in 1933 when she committed suicide by ingesting poison at age 35
  • Edward Mussey Hartwell (1850-1922), American academic who taught at Johns Hopkins University, born in Exeter, New Hampshire
  • Albert Mussey Johnson (1872-1948), American eccentric millionaire, president of the National Life Insurance Company; he built Scotty's Castle in Death Valley


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  2. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 17) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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