Biographical Sketch of O. E. MOSES (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 712-3. "O. E. MOSES, a prominent merchant of Anselma, who is interested in other lines of business also, and has been identified with the prosperity of the town for the last decade, is a son of Joseph and Catherine (Stine) Moses, and was born in East Pikeland township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1849. At six years of age he lost his parents and was reared principally by strangers, living successively with Jacob King, Mrs. Rebecca Pennypacker, and George R. Stiteler. He received his education in the common schools and then learned the trade of carpenter with Jones Walker. After serving his apprenticeship, he worked at his trade in West Vincent township, and at West Chester, and then went to Philadelphia, where he was engaged in superintending carpenter work for eleven years. At the end of that time, in 1884, he came to Anselma, where he formed a co-partnership with his brother-in-law, Horace Latshaw, under the firm name of Moses & Latshaw, and engaged in the general mercantile, coal, feed, and lumber business. This partnership continued up to April 1, 1887, when Mr. Moses purchased his partner's interest, and since then has conducted the business under his own name. His establishment is well fitted up and he carries a heavy and carefully selected stock of groceries, flour, notions and hardware, while his warehouses are well stocked with grain, bran, fertilizers, seeds and baled hay, and his lumber and coal yards always contain all kinds of lumber and several grades of coal. He makes a specialty of grain, hay and lumber, and fills large orders for the eastern markets. Mr. Moses has secured a splendid and remunerative trade, whose constantly enlarging proportions augur future success and prosperity. He owns a farm of thirty acres, and in addition to conducting his own business he acts at Anselma as agent for the United States Express Company, and as station agent for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company. He is an active republican in politics, and a deacon of Vincent Baptist church, in whose Sunday school he is a persistent worker. "On January 17, 1878, Mr. Moses wedded Sue, daughter of Jacob B. and Anna (Pennypacker) Latshaw, of West Pikeland. To Mr. and Mrs. Moses have been born three children: Laura, Emma and Anna. "O. E. Moses is of German descent. His paternal grandfather, Michael Moses, spent the larger part of his life in East Pikeland, where he died in 1853, at about seventy-five years of age. He was a stonemason by trade, and married Hannah Hines, by whom he had six children: James, Esther, John, Joseph, Mary and Barbara. The youngest son, Joseph Moses (father), was a farmer and a democrat, and died May 9, 1855, at thirty-eight years of age. He was a member of Pikeland Lutheran church, and married Catherine Stine, who was a daughter of Adam and Elizabeth (Friday) Stine, and who died December 13, 1860, when in the thirty-ninth year of her age. To Mr. and Mrs. Moses were born four children: Wilmer W., Mary E., O. E. (subject), and Addison."