MOAD BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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MOAD, Granville L. - b: 1827 Cole Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 532
residence: Clinton Twp

Rev. Granville L. Moad, M. D., pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, was 
born in Cole County, Missouri, August 5, 1827. His father, James Moad, a native of 
Tennessee, came to Missouri in 1818, and married Mrs. Rebecca Panley, whose 
maiden name was Linville. The former died in October, 1856, and the latter the 
month previous. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm in his native 
county, and had an uneventful life until war was declared against Mexico. He 
enlisted in 1846, in Company F, (Captain Parson's Company) of Colonel Doniphan's 
Regiment, and served until mustered out at New Orleans, in June, 1847. He then 
returned to his home in Cole County, Missouri. Having in early life united with the 
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and joining the New Lebanon Presbytery in 
April, 1848, he was licensed by that body to preach the gospel in 1849, and 
assigned to the circuit then including Cole, Moniteau and Miller Counties. After 
one year he was transferred to the Saline and Pettis Circuit, and upon preaching 
in this field for one year, in October, 1850, he became a student in Chapel Hill 
College, and pursued his studies in that institution two and a half years. In the 
fall of 1853, he was ordained a minister of the Gospel of Christ at Mt. Vernon, 
Missouri. He was then engaged for a time in missionary work in different 
counties of Missouri. In 1854, he accepted a call from the New Lebanon Church, at 
New Lebanon, Missouri, and remained its pastor until the fall of 1857. Removing 
to Platte City, he took charge of the church at that place, and lived there until 
November, 1866. During this time he had been reading medicine, and in 1863-4, 
he attended the St. Louis Medical College, at St. Louis, Missouri, and in connection 
with his duties as pastor of the Platte City Church, also practiced medicine. 
From November, 1866, till December, 1870, he was a resident of Leavenworth, 
Kansas. He then returned to the county of his birth, and preached and practiced 
his profession for one year. In 1872, he received a call to his present pastorate, 
which has been one of peace and prosperity. In 1878-9, he again attended the St. 
Louis Medical College, and was graduated from that institution in the spring of 
1879, since which time he has devoted himself to the treatment of the eye, doing 
only an office practice, and he has attained to a well merited success as a 
skillful oculist. Mr. Moad was married August 4, 1853, to Miss S. E. Sanders, a 
native of this state. They have two sons: William R., a practicing physician, and 
Ewing S. He is a Knight Templar in the Masonic order.

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