When Edward Singleton Musselman was born on 12 October 1865, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States, his father, Nickolas Dominiker Musselman, was 32 and his mother, Margaret Sinnamon, was 30. He married Maude Belle Donaldson on 4 July 1889, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1905 and Center Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States for about 15 years. He died on 28 March 1933, in Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, United States.