Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Mossman, C. H. 1850 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  C. H. Mossman, a progressive business man of Ocheltree and one of the
substantial citizens of Johnson county, is a native of Wisconsin. He was born at
Branch, Manitowac county, in 1850, and is a son of H. N. and Derexa (Ellis)
Mossman, both natives of Middlebury, Vt., and of old New England stock, the
former of Scotch and the latter of German descent. H. N. Mossman was born in
Vermont and was a son of Mark Mossman, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary
war. C. H. Mossman remembers, as a child, of hearing his father tell of the
historic case of Ethan Allen during the Revolutionary war. H. N. Mossman left
his Vermont home and went to Racine, Wis., and was married in Wisconsin. After
living about a year in Racine county he removed with his bride to Manitowac
county, where he took up Government land. He was one of the early pioneers of
Wisconsin. When he passed through Chicago on his way to the Northwest, that
great city of today was a mere village. H. N. Mossman, with his wife and family
of five children, came to Kansas from Wisconsin in 1868, and here the parents
spent the remainder of their lives. C. H. Mossman, whose name introduces this
sketch, was seventeen years old when the family settled in Johnson county. He
had attended school in Wisconsin and after coming here attended school in Aubry.
Mr. Mossman has had an active business career; he was a member of the company
which built the Hadley Mill at Olathe in 1888, and for a time was secretary and
general manager of that milling company. Previous to this he was engaged in the
milling business alone and has been interested in the grain business more or
less throughout his business career. In 1900 he disposed of his milling
interests in Olathe and came to Ocheltree, where he engaged in the hay, grain
and general mercantile business, which has since occupied his attention. He has
probably done more business of that particular kind, during the last twenty-five
years, than any other concern in the country. From July 1, 1914, to July 1,
1915, he handled over 54,000 bushels of grain, besides his other business
transactions. At a rough estimate his business probably amounted to considerably
more than $50,000 per year. Mr. Mossman was united in marriage in 1870 to Miss
Sarah Norris, a daughter of Amos and Valentin Norris, natives of Missouri, and
to this union two daughters were born, as follows: Hattie D. married Telman
Harrison, Kansas City, Kan., and Jessie P. married True Gorsline, of Gardner,
Kan. The wife and mother died in 1880 while in Texas, where she had gone for a
change of climate with the hope of improving her health. Mr. Mossman was married
the second time in 1886, to Caroline Ballou, a native of North Carolina, who was
reared and educated in Georgia. Mr. Mossman is a stanch Republican and one of
the strong men of his party in Johnson county. He has served two terms as clerk
of the district court and is at present postmaster at Ocheltree. He has been a
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Spring Hill for the past
thirty years and is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the
Masons, Ancient Free and Acccepted Masons. No. 56, Spring Hill. Kan., and has
been a member of that lodge over thirty years.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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