1842 - 1918 (75 years)
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Name |
Mordecai Lyon Moses [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] |
Born |
20 Aug 1842 |
Charleston, SC [4, 5, 11, 12] |
Gender |
Male |
Alt. Birth |
30 Aug 1842 |
Charleston, SC [10] |
Alt. Birth |
1843 [3] |
Census |
15 Nov 1850 |
Parishes of St. Philip & St. Michaels, Charleston, SC [13] |
1850 US |
Census |
14 Jun 1860 |
Charleston, SC [14] |
1860 US |
Emigration |
1861 |
South Carolina |
to Montgomery, Alabama |
Census |
7 Jun 1880 |
Montgomery, Montgomery, AL [5] |
1880 US |
Residence |
7 Jun 1880 |
Montgomery, Montgomery, AL [5] |
3rd Ward |
Occupation |
1875-1881 |
Montgomery, Montgomery, AL |
Mayor |
Census |
3 Jul 1900 |
St. Louis, St. Louis, MO [12] |
1900 US |
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Census |
24 Apr 1910 |
4140 McPherson, St. Louis, MO [15] |
1910 US |
Reference Number |
678 |
Residence |
24 Apr 1910 [3] |
- St Louis Ward 23, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri
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Residence |
6 Jun 1918 |
St. Louis, St. Louis, MO [11] |
4140 McPherson St. |
Died |
6 Jun 1918 |
Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO [1, 4, 11, 16] |
Buried |
Montgomery, Montgomery, AL [11] |
Person ID |
I678 |
aojd |
Last Modified |
21 Jun 2014 |
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Notes |
- MOSES, MORDECAI LYON, dealer in real estate and insurance, agent of the Confederate States of America, was born August 30, 1842, at Charleston, S. C., son of Levy I. and Adeline L. (Moses), Moses, a former native of Columbia, S. C., who lived at Charleston; grandson of Isaiah and Rebecca (Phillips) Moses, of Charleston, S. C., the latter, who was born in Newport, R. I., where her English parents located on their arrival in the United States, and of Joseph and Rachel (Lyon) Moses, of Charleston, who came from Germany with Isaiah Moses in the 18th century. Mr. Moses was graduated from high school in Charleston, S. C., in 1859 and read law in the office of his brother, Joseph Winthrop Moses in Charleston. In May, 1861, he moved to Montgomery and clerked in the hardware store of Wyman, Moses & company until the organization of the forty-sixth Alabama Regiment, which he entered as a private in Capt. James W. Powell's company. Later, he was commissioned by the Confederate government for special work in Canada and the West Indies, and was so engaged in Canada at the close of the war. He returned to Montgomery in 1865, had entered the real estate and insurance business is a member of the firm of Roberts, Moses and company. On the retirement of Mr. Roberts, a firm name was changed to Moses brothers, and later the firm engaged in the banking business. He was for several years, president of the Montgomery gas and electric light Company; president of the State fair association with which he was officially connected for 15 years; president of the North Alabama land and immigration company; president of Walker county coal and mineral land company; served as president and director of several large land development companies and overall road and furnace companies. His firm built several additions to Montgomery, and with E. S. And W. S. Gordon purchased the land organized. The Sheffield land company laying off the city of Sheffield. In 1892, he moved to St. Louis, Mo., where he engaged in real estate and insurance business. From 1871 -- 1875, he served as alderman of the city of Montgomery; selected to the office of mayor of Montgomery, being the first Democrat selected after the beginning of the reconstruction period. At the time of his election, the finances of the city were very disordered and depressed, taxation high, indebtedness, large, securities low, but the close of mayor Moses' third administration and of the terms of the alderman who aided him, found all that remedied, and the treasury, with funds for current needs. He is a Democrat and served several years as a member of the Montgomery County executive committee; is of the Jewish faith, and ex-president and a member of the Emanuel Lodge, independent order of B'nai B'rith, Montgomery. He has never married. Residents: St. Louis Mo. [10]
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Sources |
- [S11] .
- [S285] .
- [S9] (Reliability: 3).
Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit t h e following NARA web page: NARA.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Censu s o f the United States, 1910. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1910.T624, 1,178 rolls. St Louis Ward 23, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri, ED , roll T624_821, par t , p age .
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- [S27] YEAR: 1880; CENSUS PLACE: MONTGOMERY, MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA; ROLL: T9_26; FAMILY HISTORY FILM: 1254026; PAGE: 127.3000; ENUMERATION DISTRICT: 128; IMAGE: 0255. (Reliability: 3).
- [S19] DATE: 1906-12-13; "H.C. MOSES IS DEAD" (Reliability: 3).
- [S633] DATE: 1906-12-13; "H.C. MOSES IS DEAD" (Reliability: 3).
- [S19] 1920-11-20; "JUDAH MOSES DEATH GENERALLY MOURNED" (Reliability: 3).
- [S633] 1920-11-20; "JUDAH MOSES DEATH GENERALLY MOURNED" (Reliability: 3).
- [S349] VOL IV, PG 1253. (Reliability: 3).
- [S23] CERT. # 3032 WINTHROP MOSES, 18 JAN 1927, ST. LOUIS CITY (Reliability: 3).
- [S8] YEAR: 1900; CENSUS PLACE: ST LOUIS WARD 25, ST LOUIS (INDEPENDENT CITY), MISSOURI; ROLL: T623 900; PAGE: 4B (Reliability: 3).
- [S40] YEAR: 1850; CENSUS PLACE: ST MICHAEL AND ST PHILLIP, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA; ROLL: M432_850; PAGE: 310; IMAGE: 456. (Reliability: 3).
- [S250] YEAR: 1860; CENSUS PLACE: CHARLESTON WARD 5, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA; ROLL: M653_1216; PAGE: 397; IMAGE: 427. (Reliability: 3).
- [S3] SECTION III CH 10 PG 5 (Reliability: 3).
- [S23] CERT. # 21468, NORDECAI LYON MOSES, 6 JUN 1918, ST. LOUIS CITY (Reliability: 3).
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