WILLIAM A. MUSCHLITZ, the third son of Robert, a farmer of Washington Township, was born at Millport, in Carbon County, on May 6, 1867. He was reared on a farm and given a. common school education; then he secured a clerical position with the Lehigh Valley R. R. Co., at Caxton, which he filled for nine years, and a similar position with the Adams Express Co., at Pittston, where he remained nine years.

In 1908 he began farming in Washington Township on a 92-acre farm and having equipped himself with modem machinery he has carried on operations there in a successful manner. In March. 1892, he was married to Lucy Bosteck, a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Foster) Bosteck. and they have four children. They are members of the Reformed Church at Slatington.