Charles F. Moss
Benson
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913

Charles F. Moss is one of the foremost representatives 
of commercial interests in Benson where he has successfully 
engaged in business for more than fifteen years.  He is a 
native of Pennsylvania, born in 1872, and is a son of M.F. 
and D.W. Moss.  The father passed away in Pennsylvania in 
1900 but the mother is still living at the age of sixty 
eight and now makes her home in Benson with her son.  
They were the parents of five sons, one of whom S.B. is 
also a resident of Benson.

The early life of Charles F. Moss was passed in much the 
same manner as that of the average American youth.  He was 
reared at home and acquired his education in the public 
schools of his native state.  When he was twenty three he 
came to Arizona locating in Tucson where for eight years 
and three months he held the position of supply agent with 
the Southern Pacific Railroad.  At the expiration of that 
time he resigned his position and came to Benson where he 
embarked in business as a wholesale and retail dealer in 
ice and a manufacturer of gas and soda water.  He now 
handles coal, ice, gas and oil.  For a time he was 
associated with Charles E. Goetz in the operation of 
a wholesale and retail grocery but sold his interest 
in 1914.  More than average success has  attended Mr. 
Moss who owns all of his business property and has 
other realty interests in Cochise County.

In Pennsylvania in 1895 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. 
Moss and Miss Jessie Pauline Lewis, also a native of 
Pennsylvania where her parents Frank M. and Elmira 
Lewis still reside.  They had five children all of 
whom are living with the exception of Mrs. Moss who 
died in the hospital at Benson in 1908.  She is 
survived by one daughter, Frances Marian who was 
born September 23, 1899 and is attending the public 
school and studying music.  On the 21st of April, 
1910 Mr. Moss married Miss Sophia Williams who died 
seven months later.  She was born at Williamsburg 
Kansas and was one of six children born to John and 
Rebecca Williams.  On September 3, 1912, Mr. Moss 
married Miss Lena Rye of Evansville Wisconsin, and 
by this marriage there are two children: Charles 
Jr. born June 13, 1913 and Mary Christine born 
June 11, 1915.







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