Union County, SD Biographies.....Mosier, Howard April 5, 1842 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

HOWARD MOSIER, who resides in section 19, Civil Bend township, is one of the leading
agriculturists and stock raisers, and also one of the prominent citizens of the
southern part of Union county. He is a native of southwestern Missouri, born April
5, 1842, and a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Mosier.

Howard was raised on a farm in Iowa, his father having moved to Jasper county, that
state, about 1846, being one of the first settlers in that region, and in the common
schools of the district received a practical education. He served in the Civil war
and saw much of the exposure and privation incident to that period. His enlistment
dates from July 15, 1S61, when he became a private in company B, Fifth Iowa
regiment, infantry, and was mustered into the service of the United States at
Burlington, Iowa. From Burlington the regiment was transferred to Keokuk, Iowa, and
from there took a boat down the Mississippi river to St. Louis, thence to Jefferson
City, Mo., and later to Booneville, same state, where they were attached to
Fremont’s battalion, and then ordered to Springfield. From the latter city they
returned to Booneville under Gen. Hunter’s command, for winter quarters. In the
spring the regiment went to St. Louis, and shortly afterward participated in the
siege of New Madrid, at which time 5,000 prisoners were captured, and then to Cairo,
Ill., where they were mustered into Buell’s army and marched to reinforce Gen Grant
at Shiloh. Mr. Mosier participated with his company in the siege of Corinth and the
battles of Iuka and Corinth, and was present when the latter city was taken after
the siege. He became ill while on duty, and was sent to the hospital at Jackson,
Tenn., where he recovered. After he got well he was detailed as cook in the Webster
hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and he served in this position until the expiration of
his term. He was honorably discharged at Davenport, Iowa, July l8, 1864, after three
years and three days of service, during which time he was never wounded nor captured
by the enemy.

When our subject returned home to Monroe, Iowa, he secured employment on farms in
the vicinity, working by the month for a year and a half, and then rented a farm
which he conducted for one season. In the fall of 1866 he came to Union county.
Dak., and settled upon his present farm, trading a span of horses and a wagon for
160 acres, also filing a homestead claim. At that time Union county had but a scant
population, and the present thriving town of Elk Point was only a small trading
station. He has seen the country pass by stages from a vast wilderness with grass
from eight to ten feet high, to its present well-developed state, and has passed
through the grasshopper scourge, several tremendous overflows of the Missouri river,
in 1881, ’86 and ’88 which did much damage, and some terrible blizzards in
winter. But Mr. Mosier applied himself industriously to his business; the hardships
and discouragments he was compelled to endure did not dampen his spirits, and he has
plodded vigorously and steadily onward. His present farm consists of 360 acres,
one-third of which is under cultivation, and all the improvements on the property
are the result of his labors. He makes a business of general farming and stock
raising, and has some fine specimens of shorthorn cattle, of which he is a breeder.

Mr. Howard Mosier and Miss Laurinda Summy were married in 1868, two years after Mr.
Mosier came to Dakota. They have no children. Politically he is a Republican and
takes an active intertest in the affairs of Union county. He has served as a member
of the school board, and was also elected county commissioner for one term.

Daniel Mosier, the father of our subject, now resides in Mitchellville, Iowa. By his
first wife he is the parent of six children, five of whom are yet living, viz.:
Minerva Boots, who lives in Mitchellville, Iowa, no children; Harriet Sheeler,
resides in Monroe, Iowa, ten children; Howard, the subject of this biography; Jane
Heffelfinger, a resident of Monroe, Iowa, three children; and Adeline McBeth, who
lives in Nebraska. Mr. Mosier subsequently married again, the result of which union
has been two sons and three daughters, viz.: Margaret Fudge, residing in Monroe,
Iowa, two children; Nancy Hughes, living in Nebraska; Ellen McBride resides in Union
county, and has four children; George, who lives in Monroe, Iowa, has one child; and
Ose, who makes his home in the state of Washington.


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