Show ContentsSlusser Surname History

Early Origins of the Slusser family

The surname Slusser was first found in Aberdeenshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Obar Dheathain), a historic county, and present day Council Area of Aberdeen, located in the Grampian region of northeastern Scotland, where they held a family seat from ancient times at Peterhead, twenty eight miles north east of Aberdeen. It being the most easterly point in all of Scotland.

Early History of the Slusser family

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Slusser Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Slassor, Slesser, Slessor, Slessar and others.

Early Notables of the Slusser family

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Slusser Ranking

the United States, the name Slusser is the 14,477th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Migration of the Slusser family

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Robert Slessor who arrived in Somers Island in 1722; James Slessor, who arrived in Canada in 1865; and Robert Slesser, who was on record in the census of Ontario, Canada in 1871..


Contemporary Notables of the name Slusser (post 1700) +

  • William L. Slusser, American politician, Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1926, 1928 2
  • Mazzini Slusser, American politician, Circuit Judge in Illinois 16th Circuit, 1919-25 3
  • M. Slusser, American Republican politician, Alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1908 3
  • Charles E. Slusser, American politician, Mayor of Akron, Ohio, 1944-52 3
  • Charles E Slusser, American mayor of Akron, Ohio from 1944-1952
  • George Edgar Slusser (b. 1939), American scholar, professor and writer


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 3) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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