Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — More About our Boss Veteran. [ARTICLE]

More About our Boss Veteran.

From Mr. Fred Hasselbring, a good citizen of W alker township, who Avas ' m town Tuesday, we gathered some facts in regard, to that interesting old relic of, ( bygone times, Frederick Mussman, Mr. Hasselbring’s grandfather. Tlie old gentleuimi lias already been mentioned in this paper ,in connection until the fact that he once saw a good deal of the grimest of '‘grim visag'ed wffr” as a soldier of ‘ - le Grand Erapereuv,” the First Napoleon. He lives with his grandson in Walker .township, will lie ninety-five years oM us April and is still hale aud vigorous; chopping aud carrying wood, and flogging his refractory greatgrand children with unimpaired energy. He is, if we are cpirectly informed, 11 the oldest person iii Jasper county. ’