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Author: Great Bend Tribune

E. R. MOSES, Sr.

THE subject of this sketch, Mr. E. R. Moses, has had a more varied life than
falls to most people. He was horn in Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York. At an
early age his parents moved to Pechonica, Ill., where he lived until eleven
years of age, when they moved to Sedalia, Mo. Here he graduated from the common
schools and was admitted to practice law in the courts of Missouri. In 1873 he
went to California overland with three other young men, camping out for a few
months for their health, notwithstanding it was very dangerous at times with the
Indians, there being no railroads built at this time south. For a while they
despaired of all hope of ever arriving in California because of the Indian
outbreaks. He arrived in San Diego, California, December, 1873, and for three
years made his home in California, Oregon and Washington. In 1876 he went east
to attend the Centennial at Philadelphia, and from there he came to Great Bend,
having visited this place in 1873. He came back to Great Bend to go into
business with the firm of Burton, Odell & Moses. He bought an interest in this
firm, Mr. Odell retiring. Then G. N. and E. R. Moses bought out Mr. Burton in
1881. In 1900 Mr. Moses bought out his brother G. N. Moses who wished to retire
from business. Since then the business has been conducted under the name of the
E. R. Moses Mercantile Co. Mr. Moses has given the greater part of his life in
building up this business and has today stores in Great Bend and Hoisington,
that are second to none in the State of Kansas. In 1901 he, with others started
the Citizens National Bank of Great Bend .which is one of the most progressive
and solid institutions in the state. The year after he started, with others the
Pawnee Rock Bank, and the year following started The Peoples State Bank of
Hoisington. All of the banks are prosperous and not a dollar's worth of stock is
for sale in either one of them.

   In 1879 Mr. Moses married Miss Retta I. Newel of Ottumwa, Iowa, who at this
time was visiting her sister, Mrs. G. W. Nimocks. To this union were born two
children, Mr. Edward R. Moses, jr., who is manager of the Mercantile business,
and Miss Grace Moses, who married Mr. Chas. Lee of Salina, Kansas, and now lives
there.

[photo]  E. R. Moses, Sr.

   Mr. Moses has been quite successful and has often been asked why he did not
move to Chicago, Kansas City or some other large city. He has always given the
reason that he liked to live in the city and state where he made his money, and
that he was too old to start in a new business. That he wanted to work as long
as he lived, and he could work best in the business he had started in and worked
up from the very beginning. Mr. Moses is a loyal Kansan and like his wife likes
the sunshine and the climate of Kansas, and would prefer to live in the country
that had less rain than in one that had all rain and no health.

[photo]  Residence of E. R. Moses, Sr.


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