David Moser
From the Book titled "Portrait and Biographical Album of Champaign County, Ill" Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887. Page 964-965
David Moser, a prominent and successful farmer of Philo Township, is pleasantly located on section 8, where he is engaged in the careful cultivation of eighty acres of valuable and fertile land. Of this he took possession in MArch, 1869, and has since effected great improvements, having now a fine set of farm buildings and a goodly assortment of live-stock. To the latter he has given especial attention, and exhibits some of the best animals in this part of the county. His land has been thoroughly drained with tile, and is admirably adapted to the various products of the Prairie State.
Mr. Moser was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, March 21, 1827. His father, a mechanic, was a native of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. He married Miss Elizabeth Shick, of similar ancestry, and they began life together in Muskingum County, Ohio, to which both had removed in their youth. Here the elder Moser spent the remainder of his days, his death taking place in 1861, when sixty-six years of age. He was a good man in the broadest sense of the term, upright and honorable in all his dealings, kind and indulgent in his family, and a member of the United Brethren Church. Upon the organization of the Republican party he identified himself with it, and ever afterwards gave to it his warmest support. The mother, after becoming a widow, went to live with her children in Monroe County, Iowa, and there died about 1875, after reaching the advanced age of seventy-one years.
Our subject was the fifth child of his parents, whose household included seven sons and two daughters. He was reared principally in Pike County, Ohio, and received a fair education in the common schools. He remained under the home roof until reaching his majority, then learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner, and after serving his apprenticeship was united in marriage with Miss Rachel A. Brill, in April, 1857. Mrs. Moser was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1828, but like her husband, was reared principally in Pike County, where her parents, Henry and Catherine Brill, lived upon a farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Moser became the parents of two children - Lettie, who remains at home, and Jeremiah G., a teacher in the schools of Champaign County, and who, in this calling, has been more than ordinarily successful. Our subject, politically, votes the straight Republican ticket, and is a member of the Christian Church. Mrs. Moser belongs to the United Presbyterian Church.
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