Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Moss, Albert Bartlett 1914
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Payette Enterprise, Payette, Idaho
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, March 26, 1914

Hon. A. B. Moss

Hon. A. B. Moss, who passed away at St. Alphonsus Hospital, Boise, Saturday 
afternoon of typhoid fever, was one of Payette’s most prominent pioneer 
citizens.  So intimately was he associated with all its enterprises, his death 
will have a tendency to paralyze financial interests for a time.  Mr. Moss was 
born Nov. 9, 1849, at Belvidere, Ill.  He attended the public school till he 
was sixteen, then came west and engaged in stock raising in Colorado and 
Wyoming for fifteen years. 

March 10th, 1881, he was married to Miss Celia Mellor of Rock Springs, coming 
to Idaho in1882 to fulfill a contract with the Oregon Short Line, for a quarter 
of a million ties to be delivered at this point, he seeing the possibilities of 
the surrounding country, drove the first stake in the dirt of this fertile 
valley and founded Payette. Later prophesying it was to be Idaho’s most 
populous and thriving section and he lived to see many of his predictions come 
true. 

In 1883 in partnership with his brother F. C Moss, who survives him, he engaged 
in general merchandise, stock raising, real estate and banking at Payette.  He 
was the pioneer ditch and road builder for this section and was Payette’s first 
mayor and many times school trustee.  A member of the Constitutional 
Legislature and at the time of his death President of the First National Bank, 
President of Moss Mercantile, President of the Cannery Company, Chairman of the 
Asylum Board for eight years and Treasurer of the Payette Valley railroad, a 
railroad that his influence gave us.  
In politics he was a Republican and was candidate for Governor in 1896 on the 
Gold Ticket.  He was a veteran of the Civil War, entering the service so young 
he was obliged to enlist in an adjoining town where he was not known.  He 
served in the 69th Illinois regiment and was wounded at Shiloh.  

He was a man broad and liberal in his religious views, a devoted husband and 
father with a generous hand and warm heart in alleviating the sufferings of 
others, an energetic business man owing his high standing to his individual 
efforts and most remarkable personality.  He was a Knight Templar and member of 
the I. O. O. F., Elks, G. A. R., O. E. S., and sending beautiful emblems of 
their order and attending in regalia, the funeral which was held from the house 
Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Thomas Ashworth, Rector of St. James, reading the 
prayers and Ben Samuel Applegate, an old time friend, spoke most feelingly of 
his acquaintance with the deceased.  

The body lay in state in a solid embankment of floral offerings of friends, 
from 10 to 12 and was viewed by many.  Coming from a distance was Masons and I. 
O. O. F. from Weiser, Ontario and Boise. He honorary pall bearers were Judge 
Richards, Joseph Pinkham, Frank Coffin, J. M. Johnson, Boise, John McGlinchey 
and Henry Erwin, Payette.  The Masons took charge at the cemetery.  

Mr. Moss is survived by his wife and five sons, Lieut. Wentworth Moss, U. S. 
A., who arrived home Saturday, Frederick Alvord Moss, A. B. Moss, Jr., William 
Moss and Herber Moss who is attending school at Philadelphia, one sister and 
two brothers, to whom we extend most sincere sympathy.  


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