William's History of Frederick County
William
H. Fuss
William H. Fuss, deceased, who was
a retired farmer, and well-known citizen of Emmitsburg
District, Frederick County, Md., son of John and Hettie
(Fuss) Fuss, was born in Taneytown district, Carroll
County, Md., December 24, 1848; died April 24, 1909.
John Fuss, father of William H.
Fuss, was born nine days after his father’s death, in
the year 1825, in Frederick County, Md. He grew up on
the farm and devoted himself to husbandry. In early
manhood, Mr. Fuss hired by the month as a farm laborer,
but after his marriage, began farming for himself on
rented land. He was industrious and thrifty and finally
was able to purchase the farm on which his son, Asbury,
now resides. In 1877 he moved to the farm now owned by
his son Mead, where he died in 1890. His wife died in
1888, aged fifty-nine.
They were members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Mr. Fuss was a Republican,
interested in public affairs, but never held office. The
children of John and Hettie (Fuss) Fuss are: 1, William
H.; 2, Kite (Mr. B. F. Edwards), of Los Angeles, Cal 3.
Ezra. married Sarah Mickley, resides in Perth Kansas: 4,
Albert, of Glenden, Baltimore County Md., married Miss
Woods; 5, Virginia (Mr. Henry Troxell), of New York N.Y.
6, Edward Meade (who, born nine months the battle of
Gettysburg, was named after the union General Meade), married Kate Baumgardner (Mrs. Charles
Cork), of Brooklyn NY. 8, Asbury, a farmer of
the Emmitsburg district. married Carrie Haak; 9, John T
died at the age of twenty-one.
William H. Fuss was ten years old
when his parents removed to the farm in Emmitsburg
District now the property of Asbury Fuss, a younger
brother of William H. Fuss. Here he passed his
youth and here he received his education in the Ridge
School under Linnie Sproukle, her brother Isaac C.
Spronkle, Jerry Demuth. Harry Six. Jonathan Allison,
James A. Golding. and Daniel P. Honkey. Mr. Fuss
remained at school until he was twenty-one, giving his
leisure time and all his vacations to assist his father
with the farm work. After leaving school, lie remained
at home working for his father until 1873.
When he began
farming for himself on rented land and, after six or
eight years of patient toil was able to purchase the
property. The farm consisted of 147 acres for which he
paid $5,500. When Mr. Fuss took the farm it was
considered the poorest place in that section of the
State. When he left it after thirty-five years of
intelligent care, it was rated as one of the best,
giving one season 888 bushels to thirty-one acres. In
1908 Mr. Fuss retired from active farm life on account
of ill health, which was caused by injuries received
some years before when he was thrown from a wagon in the
wagon shed, and died April 24, 1909.
William Fuss was married.
February 10, 1873 to Maria Louisa Overholtzer. Their
children are: 1 Annie (Mrs. Mahlon Stonesifer) of
Keysville, Md. John I of Frederick Md. married Miss
Bertie Clutz. Mr. Fuss was a stanch Republican and served
for one term as register and judge of election. He was a
member of Toms' Creek Methodist Episcopal Church in which
congregation held the office of steward, and of
which also the family are members.
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life and time of John and Helen Fuss
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