Osage County, Oklahoma, Biography:  Lewis P. Mosier

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Lewis P. Mosier

Lewis P. Mosier was born in Sullivan County, Penn., in 1863, but lived in 
southwestern MO until an adult.  After studying Law, he moved to South 
Dakota Territory where he (alongside others such as Dr. Frank Pettigrew, 
future Senator) helped obtain statehood for South Dakota.

In 1891, he moved to Pawnee, Oklahoma Territory, where he lived for 16 
years.  Lewis helped make Pawnee into a county and became a City Judge and 
was Clerk of the First Territorial Legislature. 

Lewis practiced law in Frederick and Oklahoma City.  He moved his family to 
Pawhuska, OK, in 1913, where he practiced law with Charles B. Peters.  (Mr.
Peters eventually went into the oil business and moved to Tulsa.)

In the early 1920s, Lewis Mosier was appointed Special Attorney by the 
Federal Government.  His assignment was to help solve the Osage Indian
Murders.  He also served as a federal judge with powers to investigate the
source of whiskey being sold illegally to Osages.

"Lew" Mosier married Jessie Ross Bussey in 1901.  She came from West Virginia
and was a teacher in a country school near Pawnee.  They had one child, 
James Paul Mosier, who was born Dec. 15, 1902.

Lewis P. Mosier died in 1929.  He was 66.  Jessie Mosier died in 1964.  
She was 89.  Both are buried in Pawhuska Cemetery.

Source: James P. Mosier

For additional information:
Osage County Profiles
Osage County Historical Society, Inc.
1964