Clearfield County PA Archives - Photos: MOSSOP, Frederick Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Ellis Michaels, , Oct 2008 Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/ ________________________________________________ http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/photos/mossop-frederick.txt Photo may be viewed at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/photos/mossop-frederick.jpg Frederick Mossop, leading citizen of Clearfield County photo scanned from Roland D. Swoopes "Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, PA and Representative Citizens", published 1911, page 422 RICHARD MOSSOP, now deceased, to whom this sketch is dedicated, will be remembered as one of the pioneer merchants of Clearfield, Pa. He was born in the city of Philadelphia, May 4, 1819, and was a son of John Mossop. In early manhood, Richard Mossop came to Clearfield and engaged in merchandising, conducting a general store until his death, which occurred January 1, 1891. Richard Mossop was married in June, 1845, to Miss Margaret Graham, who was born in Clearfield county, Pa., and died in January, 1894. Her father, Francis Graham, was one of the pioneers of Clearfield county. Richard Mossop and wife were members of the Presbyterian church. In politics he was a Republican but never consented to have his name brought forward for public office. He was a man of ample fortune and a bank director. Frederick Mossop, a son of Richard Mossop, succeeded his father in his mercantile business and successfully continued it until his own death. His business methods were, perhaps, more up-to-date than his father's had been, having an ambition to enlarge the scope of the enterprise and to introduce modern appliances. He did not confine his public spirited energies to his own business but assisted in developing the commercial interests of Clearfield by erecting many of the substantial structures which are a credit to the business district of the city. Suffering frequently from ill health himself, his attention was thus called to the crying need of the city for a well equipped hospital and, following his death, his heirs respected his expressed wish in this relation. They donated the hospital site, together with the sum of $20,000, and the Clearfield Hospital stands as a lasting monument to the memory of Frederick Mossop.