Daniel Musser (1809–1877) was a physician and a bishop [1] at the Longenecker's Reformed Mennonite Church in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Church adopted the sixteenth century Anabaptist practice of banning and shunning to reform members.
Musser was unusual in being a physician in a community largely dominated by farmers and artisans.
[4] However, John Funk was highly critical of Musser's book The Reformed Mennonite Church and her accusers.
[1] Although Musser and Tolstoy agreed on nonresistance, Musser's views on government and human nature differed sharply from those of Tolstoy: Musser saw humans as basically evil, needing governments to control them; Tolstoy, on the other hand, saw governments as inherently evil, and humans as essentially good.