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Submitted by Debbie Barrett June 13, 2001
mrsgrinnin@home.com

BALDASAR MOSER, carpenter, Plum City, Pierce county, was born in Switzerland, 
and was one of a family of thirteen children.  He came to this country while
young and settled in Highland, Ill.  In 1856 he moved to Red Wing, Minn., 
and went into the wood trade.  The same year he married Anna, daughter of
D. and J. Offolter, and three children were born to them:  Mary (now Mrs. 
Hophan) lives near Plum City; Mina (now Mrs. Oberding) and B. Moser Jr., who
is married to Miss Hophau.  In 1880 they adopted as one of their own family
a child six months old named Ida.  Mrs. Moser died in April 1882.  In 1884 
Mr. Moser married Rossetta Robeson and one child has been born to them, Ella,
who died in infancy.  Mr. Moser has lived in Plum City a great many years,
engaged in farming and carpenter work, but for four years he had a saw-mill.
He sold it and went to work at coopering for two years.  He enlisted,
January 3, 1865, in Co. E, 144th Illinois volunteer infantry, and served 
until the regiment was discharged, then came back to Plum City and began
building and doing cabinet work. He is now erecting a large building
preparatory to opening a furniture store and is doing a large business.
He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R.  He was reared a Roman
Catholic, and in politics has always been a true and consistent democrat.

--Taken from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin Including A General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley;
Ancestral Records fo Leading Families; Biographies of Representative Citizens,
Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men.  Edited by George Forrester.
Published in Chicago, Illinois by A. Warner. Publisher. 1891-2. Page 596