Robert Mousel
Robert D. Mousel was born in April of 1877 in a sod house on Medicine Creek. Together Robert and Henry (born in 1878) grew up on the family homestead near Cambridge, Nebraska. The two brothers got their start in 1898 and since have been known as the Mousel Brothers. They bought two heifers for $100 a piece and later in 1903 bought Princeps IV for $255. This bull started them on their road up.
Robert Mousel married Miss Pluma Babbitt in 1902. Their family of five boys and three girls include Claude, Lloyd, R. Wendell, Canellan K. and Robert G. Mousel Jr. The girls are Dorothy, Agnes and Beulah Mousel.
Their first auction was held in 1904 and twelve bulls sold at an average price of $117.70. At that auction they started in their catalogue about Herefords, "Herefords are supreme as beef cattle...Your farm is too valuable to raise scrub cattle. Buy a good bull and raise the easy feeding, early-maturing kind, the Herefords." With this belief the Mousel Brothers became well known as top Hereford breeders.