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REV. WILLIAM C. MOSHER, A. M., 
 ALHAMBRA, CAL. 
 
ORIGIN AND HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MOSHER FAMILY 
 
 AND 
 
 GENEALOGY OF ONE BRANCH 
 
 OF THAT FAMILY 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 YEAR 1600 
 
 TO 
 
 THE PRESENT TIME 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 WILLIAM c/mOSHER, A. M. 
 
 ALHAMBRA, CAL. 
 1898 
 
1898 
 
 THE TIMES-MIRROR PRINT 
 
 1,08 ANGEI.ES, CAI,. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 This history and genealogy of the Mosher family is compiled 
 for the present surviving members of that family, many of 
 vi^hom have but a limited knowledge of their ancestry. The 
 information here recorded has been gathered b}^ genealogists 
 in this country and in England, from parish, town and city 
 records of the olden time. Much information has also been 
 gleaned from Austen's Genealogical Dictionary, and from the 
 Narragansett Historical Register, as well as from other reg- 
 isters. In tracing the origin of the family, use has been made 
 of an unpublished autobiography, written by Rev. Charles 
 Mosher, which was found among his papers after his death, in 
 1828. Valuable information has also been obtained from 
 Josiah Mosher, brother of Lieut. John Mosher, who was an 
 officer in the 8th Mass. Regt. during the entire Revolutionary 
 war. The compiler of this book made him a visit in 1845, 
 and received from him much reliable information in regard to 
 the origin of his family, and in regard to Sir Hugh Mosher, 
 who made a large fortune in Calcutta while a member of the 
 East India Company. 
 
 No attempt has been made to trace all the branches of the 
 family tree, extending through ten generations and containing 
 thousands of names, as this would be too great a task. The 
 search has been confined to the branch with which the com- 
 piler of this book is connected. He reverently dedicates the 
 book to the living members of the Mosher family. 
 
 William C. Mosher. 
 
HDSTORY.., 
 
 AND 
 
 GENEALOGY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MOSHER FAMILY 
 
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History and Genealogy of the 
 Mosher Family. 
 
 The earliest traditions of the Mosher family locate them in 
 Alsace, in the northeast part of France, about the year 1580. 
 Alsace was a German province prior to 1697, when it was 
 annexed to France by L,ouis XIV. The home of the Moshers 
 was in the southern part, near Strassburg. The name implies 
 that the family is of German origin, for it is compounded of 
 two German words, Mos and Herr, which when combined 
 mean moss lord, or ' ' Lord of the Moss, ' ' from the circumstance 
 that the founder of the family, being a man of wealth and 
 prominence, had his residence on a mossy mound or hill. 
 
 After Alsace was annexed to France both the French and 
 German languages were spoken. The French method of 
 spelling the name was Mosier, or Motier. In England the 
 original German method was generally used — Mosher. In 
 religion the family were Protestants, and with many others 
 fled to England to escape persecution. It is supposed that 
 they went to England under the leadership of Hugh Mosher, 
 and that the migration took place prior to the year 1600. 
 They located in Manchester, Chester and London. 
 
 A genealogist who searched the records of Manchester a 
 few years ago, found that one William Mosher was appointed 
 by-law man, or road overseer, Sept. 2, 1616. His will was 
 found recorded in the register of the probate court of 
 
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 Manchester in 162 1. He had not lived there many years, 
 for the name is one that does not belong to Manchester, 
 or Chester, for there is no record of it on the records of 
 those cities prior to 16 14. In 1614, William Mosher is de- 
 scribed as a "silk weaver," and in 1619 as a "gentleman." 
 In his will, made in 1620, he calls himself a "chapman," or 
 " Merchant." His being a silk weaver proves that he came 
 from France, for there were very few silk weavers in Eng- 
 land prior to this time, and these few came from France. 
 He died suddenly in 1620, leaving two children, Mary 
 and John. The Manchester records show that he had 
 four brothers — ^John, Thomas, Stephen and George, with three 
 of whom he was in a business partnership. Strange as it 
 may seem three of these brothers had each a son named Hugh, 
 who were distinguished men. They were all living in 1620. 
 I. Hugh, son of John Mosher, seems to have been a man 
 of superior business talents. lycaving Manchester, he went 
 to London, where he became a member of the Kast India Com- 
 pany, which had been chartered by Queen Elizabeth in the 
 year 1600. He was sent by the company to Calcutta, where 
 he made large investments in real estate, and became owner of 
 a tract of land through which one of the principal streets of 
 the city afterwards extended, making his land so very valuable 
 that it was considered worth several millions of pounds sterling. 
 In his old age he returned to England, where, in consideration 
 of his wealth and his great services to the East India Company, 
 he was honored with knighthood, being created a baron. As 
 he left no children to inherit his property, efforts were made 
 by the Mosher family in the United States, at various times 
 
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 during the present century, to obtain this fortune, but without 
 success, as it had probably reverted to the English crown. 
 
 II. Another Hugh Mosher, cousin of the former, was a 
 son of Thomas Mosher. He sailed from L,ondon in the ship 
 "James," in 1632, and reached Boston June i6th, of that 
 year. Four years later he went to Casco Bay, Maine, where 
 he bought and improved two islands, now in Freeport, called 
 Great Island and Little Island, where he lived for a time and 
 then removed to Falmouth, where he made a permanent home 
 and raised a family. He died in 1666, leaving two sons — 
 James and John. Three years after his death those sons sold 
 the two islands in Casco Bay to one John Lane . Afterwards 
 they sold 300 acres on Hamsichett river to Joseph Nash, and 
 removed, first, to Portland and then to Gorham. After this 
 we are not able to trace them, although the Moshers now 
 residing in Maine are probably their descendants. 
 
 III. A third Hugh Mosher, cousin of the two already 
 mentioned, was the son of Stephen Mosher, of Manchester, 
 England. He sailed for America and reached Boston in 1636. 
 He first located in Salem, where he became a friend of Roger 
 Williams, pastor of the Salem church, with whose religious 
 views he was in full sympathy. Roger Williams was perse- 
 cuted by the civil authorities for openly advocating liberty of 
 conscience in religious matters and the separation of church 
 and state. When he was banished from Massachusetts in 
 October, 1636, Hugh Mosher went with him to Rhode Island, 
 or joined him there during the winter of that year, which was 
 severely cold and the hardships very great. Roger Williams 
 was grateful for the assistance rendered him by Hugh Mosher, 
 
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 and afterwards rewarded him with substantial tokens of his 
 gratitude, securing for him a permanent title to a fifth part of 
 the large and fertile township of Westerly, Rhode Island, 
 August 4, 1676. In 1669 Hugh Mosher was appointed by the 
 general court Ensign of a military company, and he took part 
 in the war against King Philip, distinguishing himself by his 
 daring and bravery. In this war all the New England colonies 
 saifered greatly, and during the 12 years of its continuance 
 about 40 towns were burned and more than 1000 white men 
 were killed, among whom were two sons of Hugh Mosher. 
 Sympathizing with Roger Williams in his religious views, he 
 became a Baptist, and in 1674 he was ordained pastor of the 
 Baptist church in Dartmouth, in the southern part of Mass- 
 achusetts, near the boundary line of Rhode Island. But after 
 his ordination he was always called by his military title — En- 
 sign Hugh Mosher. He died at Newport, R. I., in 1694. 
 
 The genealogy of the Mosher family, so far as known, may 
 be summed up as follows: 
 
 Prior to the year 1600 there were in Manchester and London, 
 England, five brothers named Mosier, or Mosher, namely, 
 William, John, Thomas, Stephen, and George. Three of these 
 brothers had sons named Hugh, who were distinguished men. 
 
 I. Hugh, son of John Mosher, went to Calcutta, where he 
 amassed a fortune, and on his return to England he was hon- 
 ored with knighthood. He died in lyOndon, leaving no 
 children. 
 
II. Hugh, son of Thomas Mosher, sailed for America 1632 
 and reached Boston June 16 of that year. He settled in Maine, 
 where his descendants still live. 
 
 III. Ensign Hugh Mosher, son of Stephen Mosher, of 
 Manchester, England, reached Boston in 1636. He went to 
 Rhode Island, where he was associated with Roger Williams 
 in the settlement of that colony. He died in Newport, R. I. 
 in 1694. His wife was Lydia Maxon. His children were 
 Hugh, John, Nicholas, Joseph, Daniel, and James. 
 
 I. Rev. Hugh Mosher, second, son of Ensign Hugh Mosher, 
 was born in Providence, R. I., in 1633. Died in 17 13. 
 Married Rebecca Harndell, daughter of John and Sarah Harn- 
 dell. His children were Nicholas, born 1666; John, born 
 i668; Joseph, born 1670; Mary, born 1679; James, born 
 1675; Daniel, born 1678; Rebecca, born 1677. — \_Bond's Gene- 
 alogy, p. 27.] 
 
 The children of Nicholas, son of Rev. Hugh Mosher, second. 
 
 HUGH, born November 16, 1690. 
 JOSEPH, born April 7, 1692. 
 MARY, born December 16, 1695. 
 ELIZABETH, born April 16, 1697. 
 THOMAS, born February 26, 1699. 
 NICHOLAS, born January 17, 1703. 
 MERCY, born July 6, 1705. 
 REBECCA, born March 2 1708. 
 EPHRIAM, born March 5, 1710. 
 MARGARET, born January 17, 1713. 
 
 II. John Mosher, son of Hugh Mosher, second, born 1668, 
 died August 1739. Married Experience Kirby, March 5, 1692. 
 
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 Children : 
 
 ROBERT, born October 12, 1693. 
 HANNAH, born November 9, 1697. 
 PATIENCE, born March 30, 1698. 
 ABIGAIL,, born September 21, 1699. 
 JOHN, born March 12, 1703. 
 HANNAH, born March 13, 1712. 
 SARAH, born June 9, 17 14. 
 
 III. Joseph Mosher, son of Hugh Mosher, second, born 
 1670, died 1754.. Married Lydia Taber. She was born 1673 
 and died 1743. 
 
 Children : 
 
 REBECCA, born December 28, 1695. 
 PHILIP, born December 20, 1697. 
 JONATHAN, born March 13, 1699. 
 JOSEPH, born June 23, 1701. 
 JAMES, born December 13, 1704. 
 RUTH, born September 17, 1707. 
 BENJAMIN, born February 22, 1709. 
 WILLIAM, born July 29, 1713. 
 LYDIA, born April 15, 1719. 
 
 IV. Mary Mosher, daughter of Hugh Mosher, second, 
 born 1672, died 1748. Married Joseph Rathbone, May 19, 
 169 1. Died 1748. 
 
 Children : 
 
 ELIZABETH, born March 14, 1692. 
 JULIA, born March i, 1694. 
 REBECCA, born July 16, 1695. 
 GRACE, born March 6, 1697. 
 MARY, born November 29, 1700. 
 MARGARET, born February 14, 1703. 
 MERCY, born March 21, 1706. 
 
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 HANNAH, born October 4, 1707. 
 JOSEPH, born February 26, 1710. 
 BENJAMIN, born April i, 1712. 
 JOB, born June 15, 1714. 
 
 V. James Mosher, son of Hugh Mosher, second, born 
 1675. Ivived in New London, Connecticut. Married, first, 
 Catherine Tosh, July 6, 1704. 
 
 Children by her : 
 
 DANIEL, born October 13, 1705. 
 MARY, born January i, 1707. 
 JAMES, born December 11, 1709. 
 JOHN, born 171 1. 
 WILLIAM, born November 9, 1713. 
 
 Married, second, Mary Duval, May 22, 17 14. 
 Children by her : 
 
 JOHN WILLIAM, born June 4, 1715. 
 TIMOTHY, bor.i October 27, 1716. 
 JONATHAN, born May 9, 1718. 
 DAVID, born March 29, 1720. 
 JEREMIAH, born June 16, 1722. 
 JAMES, born April 24, 1724. 
 PHEBE, born May 10, 1726. 
 
 VI. Daniel Mosher, son of Hugh Mosher, second, born 
 
 1678, died 1 75 1. Married Elizabeth Edwards, 1704. 
 
 Children : 
 
 BENJAMIN, born April 19, 1706. 
 
 DANIEL, born July i, 1709. 
 MICAH, born September 27, 1711. 
 CONSTANT, born September 11, 1713. 
 RACHEL, born June 14, 1715. 
 GEORGE, born May 9, 1717. 
 EPHRIAM, born December 8, 17 18. 
 
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 ROGER, born March 3, 1720. 
 HUGH, born March 17, 1722. 
 PATIENCE, born June 29, 1724. 
 MERCY, born October 12, 1726. 
 
 VII. Rebecca Mosher. 
 
 VIII. John William Mosher, son of James Mosher and Mary 
 Duval, was born June 4, 17 15. He married November 12, 
 1741, at Groton, Mass., Blizabeth, daughter of Zachariah 
 and Abigail L,awrence, who was born at Groton, October 15, 
 1720. (See Butler's History, p. 453-475). 
 
 Their children : 
 
 MARY, born April 11, 1743; married Wm. Graham, 1772. 
 JOHN, born February 8, 1745. 
 JAMES, born July 31, 1747. 
 
 ABIJAH, born August 17, 1749; killed in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
 DAVID, born August 2, 1752; killed in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
 JOSIAH, born May 31, 1757 ; married Rebecca Doolittle. 
 ELIZABETH, born July 31, 1760; married Sam'l Moody Emerson. 
 HANNAH, born April 5, 1764. 
 
 Lieut. John Mosher, son of Wm. John Mosher, born Feb- 
 ruary 8, 1745, at Pepperell, Mass., married October i, 1770, 
 Hannah, daughter of William and Hannah Boynton Warren. 
 She was born June 7, 1753. 
 
 William Warren, born 1724, was a Minute man in Capt. 
 John Nutting's Company. He was directly descended trom 
 Arthur Warren, who was one of the settlers of Weymouth in 
 1645, who was a (carefully proven) lineal descendant of Wil- 
 liam, Earl of Warren, etc. 
 
 William, Earl of Warren, a Norman baron of Danish descent, 
 was the first of the name known on English soil. He accom- 
 
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 panied William the Conquerer on his expedition to England, 
 and took an important part in the battle of Hastings, fought 
 October 14, 1066. For his valor that day he was rewarded 
 with lands in Sussex, Surrey, Norfolk, Suffolk, and had con- 
 ferred on him the earldom of Surrey, by William. 
 
 " Before the conquest, his residence was at Bellecombe, in 
 Normandy; after it, he dwelt in the village of L,ewes, County 
 Sussex, England. He married Gundreda, the fourth daughter 
 of William, and became the progenitor of the earls of Warren 
 and of Surrey. From this ancestry, the Warrens are followed 
 down through earls, knights, and commoners, to the period of 
 the settlement of America." 
 
 John Mosher commanded a company of Infantry during five 
 years in. the Revolutionary war, and was in the battles of Lex- 
 ington, Concord, Bunker Hill, White Plains, Oriskany, Sara- 
 toga, Brandy wine, Germantown and Monmouth. Was dis- 
 abled for life by sunstroke at Monmouth. He died at New 
 Hartford, N. Y., March 3, 18 17. Hannah Warren, his wife, 
 died August 15, 1795. She was first cousin of Gen. Joseph 
 Warren, who fell in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
 
 In a cemetery at East Pepperell, is a stone slab with this in- 
 scription: " Rufus, aged 9 years and 6 months, Son of Lieut. 
 John Mosher and his Wife, Hannah. Died Sept. 24, 1789." 
 This was beside the grave of Col. Prescott. " Earliest History, 
 1666-1875," p. 257-8, by Charles W. Baird, gives the following: 
 
 A NOTABLE INCIDENT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 
 
 " It was near Merritt's tavern, upper part of King street, 
 that one of the most notable incidents of the war occurred. 
 
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 On Sunday, May 20, 1778, Captain Juckett was stationed here 
 in command of the New York lines, near Ranson's purchase. 
 A part of Delancey's cavalry, commanded by Capt. Kipp, 
 making an incursion as far as King street, fell in with Capt. 
 Juckett, who had gone a short distance from his men, and 
 took him prisoner, together with an ensign and private. The 
 command of the American party then" devolved on L,ieut. 
 Mosher, who retreated with them to a spot near Merritt's tav- 
 ern, where he formed his men in a solid body, or hollow 
 square, with fixed bayonets. They were ordered not to 
 fire a shot but to receive the enemy's charge in silence 
 until further instructions. At the first charge the Tory 
 officer, finding himself repulsed, called to Mosher to 
 surrender or he would cut his party in pieces. Mosher 's 
 reply was one of defiance. Another charge was made 
 and sustained in the same manner. But after the third 
 attack, the Americans were ordered to fire on the retiring 
 troops, which they did with terrible effect, killing ten men and 
 dangerously wounding eighteen others, among them Capt. 
 Kipp. Two of the British officers had their horses killed under 
 them. Mosher 's men, taking advantage of the discomfiture 
 of their assailants, escaped to a neighboring piece of woods, 
 not having a man even wounded. 
 
 ' ' This is said to have been the most astonishing feat on the 
 part of the officers and men that was enacted during the whole 
 war. General Washington often spoke of the affair, and it 
 was reported all over Europe to show the utility of the bay- 
 onet, and that a small party of infantry thus armed may suc- 
 cessfully resist a strong body of cavalry." 
 
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 See also : 
 
 History of Greenwich, Conn., by D. Ward, pp. 179-181 ; and 
 Hugh Gaines' New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, Dec. 
 10, 1781. 
 
 Though John Mosher bore the title Lieutenant, yet he was 
 the actual commander of his company during the war. He 
 refused the title of Captain out of regard to James Nutting, 
 the nominal captain, who was absent on sick leave and never 
 returned, for he died in 1777. 
 
 Another incident in the military' life of Lieut. John Mosher 
 is worth preserving. In July, 1777, he was sent by Gen. 
 Schuyler with a letter to tory Butler at Oriskany, a post on the 
 Mohawk river. His way was through a wilderness infested 
 with hostile Indians. He performed the journey and delivered 
 the letter to Butler, but on his return he narrowly escaped 
 being killed and scalped by the Indians, who laid in wait for 
 him. His life was saved only by his courage, tact and great 
 presence of mind. One bullet was shot through his hat and 
 four through his coat. After reaching Gen. Schuyler he was put 
 in command of a company of infantry, with which he joined 
 Gen. Herkimer and marched to the relief of Fort Stanwix, 
 (now Rome, N. Y.) which was besieged by Gen. St. Leger 
 with 1400 men, composed of British, Tories and Indians. At 
 Oriskany, Gen. Herkimer fell into an ambuscade of Tories 
 and Indians and was defeated with the loss of 400 men. Gen. 
 Herkimer was mortally wounded, and Capt. John Mosher 
 assisted to carry him off the battle field to a place of safety, 
 but in doing so he nearly lost his life at the hands of the sav- 
 ages. Then he conducted the retreat to Albany, in command 
 of the rear guard. In a few days he joined a new expedition 
 
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 under Gen. Benedict Arnold, and marched with him to the 
 relief of Fort Stanwix. By strategy and valor they defeated 
 Gen. St. Leger's army and relieved the fort. 
 
 Lieut. John Mosher was so pleased with the country at the 
 head-waters of the Mohawk river, which he saw while on this 
 expedition, that after the war was over he decided to make 
 that region his home. So, in 1791, he sold his property in 
 Pepperell, Mass., and removed with his family to what is now 
 Whitesboro, near Utica, N, Y., where he bought a farm and 
 built a house. Here he was joined by his brother, Josiah, 
 who had been with him through the Revolutionary war. 
 Together they bought 800 acres of land of Judge White, at 50 
 cents an acre. Judge White had obtained a large tract of land 
 of the government, located near the mouth of Sanquoit creek, 
 and laid out a town which he named Whitesboro. John and 
 Josiah selected their land near the mouth of this creek, and by 
 dividing it equally, they each had 400 acres, on which they 
 built houses and established their families. Near Whitesboro 
 some of their posterity remain until this day. 
 
 The children of L,ieut. John and Hannah Warren Mosher 
 were: 
 
 CHARLES, born at Pepperell, Mass., Feb. 21, 1772 
 
 WARREN, 
 
 
 
 May 2, 1774 
 
 ABEL, 
 
 
 
 Oct. 14, 1776 
 
 BETSEY, 
 
 
 
 April 24, 1779 
 
 JOHN, 
 
 
 
 June 5, 1781 
 
 DANIEL, 
 
 
 
 April 15, 1786 
 
 ASAHEL, 
 
 
 
 June 10, 1788 
 
 ROGER, 
 
 
 
 Mar. 12, 1790 
 
 ABIJAH, 
 
 
 Whitestown, N. 
 
 Y.,Mar. 3,1794 
 
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 Rev. Charles Mosher, oldest son of Lieut. John Mosher, was 
 born in Pepperell, Mass., Feb. 21, 1772. Married L,aura 
 Parmele, daughter, of Rev. Reuben Parmele and Laura 
 Collins, of Ontario Co., N. Y., April 20, 1808. Died at 
 Elniira, N. Y., Nov. 12, 1828. His wife died at Canandaigua, 
 N. Y., January 18, 1843. 
 
 His children were : 
 
 I. Hannah, born at Romulus, N. Y., Maj^ g, 1809. Mar- 
 ried Timothy Field, first cousin of Cj^us W. Field, April, 
 1840. Died at Ontario, Ind., 1868. 
 
 II. Charles Mosher, born in Romulus, N. Y., June 24, 
 181 1. Married Angelina McKay at Warsaw, N. Y., April 23, 
 1856. Died at Des Moines, Iowa, September i, 1870. He 
 left three daughters, i. Grace, born June 16, 1861. 2. 
 Florence, born September 16, 1863. 3. Maude, born Jan- 
 uary ID, 1867. Grace married Wm. M. Wood and lives in 
 Paris. Maude married in London, September 3, 1893, John 
 M. Robertson. She lives in London. He was president of 
 the Citizens" Bank in Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 III. John Mosher, son of Rev. Charles Mosher, born at 
 Romulus, N. Y., June 20, 1814. Married Margaret Utley, 
 June, 18^9. He was a banker at Lima and Canadaigua, N.Y. 
 Died at San Francisco, Cal., February 17, 1877. 
 
 Children were Henry Howell and Ella. 
 
 IV. Mary, second daughter of Rev. Charles Mosher, born at 
 
 Genoa, N. Y., March 22, 1816. Married Clark Barrows, at 
 Angelica, N. Y., June 10, 1838. He was born in Watertown, 
 N. Y., December 20, 1813 ; died at Ontario, Ind., August i, 
 1859. She died at San Francisco, Cal., December i, 1894. 
 Children of Mary Mosher and Clark Barrows are: 
 
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 1. Emily lyOtiise, born in Springville, N. Y., May 
 
 II, 1839. Died at lyorin, Cal., March 22, i8go. Married 
 
 Thomas Stevenson at Mokelumne Hill, Cal., March 23, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Children : 
 WILLIAM HENRY, born at Mokelumne Hill, Cal., April 17, 1865. 
 GEORGIA ELOISE, born at Madison, Ga., November 25, 1867. 
 FREDERICK THOMPvSON, born at San Francisco, June 7, 1871. 
 HERBERT BARROWS, born at San Francisco. June 24, 1873. 
 LAURIE BARROWS, born at San Francisco, April i, 1877. 
 CARRIE LOUISA, born at San Francisco; January 7, 1880. 
 THOMAS DEAN, born at San Francisco, December 11, 1881. 
 
 2. William Henry, son of Mary Mosher and Clark 
 Barrows, born at Warsaw, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1848. Mar- 
 ried Carrie J. McMurray in San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 
 22, 1881. 
 
 Children: 
 RAY KIP, born at San Francisco, January 23, 1882. 
 
 MARGUERITE ANITA, born at San Francisco, April 16, 1884. 
 
 Died at Lorin, Cal., December 2, 1887. 
 LEIGH FRANCIS, born at Lorin, Cal., June 8, 1888. 
 OLIVE EMILY, born at Lorin, Cal., January 16, 1890. 
 WARREN HARMON, born at San Francisco, January 18, 1892. 
 
 Died in San Francisco, September 21, 1896. 
 DOROTHY, orn in San Francisco, October 28, 1893. 
 
 3. Charles Mosher, son of Clark and Mary Mosher 
 Barrows, born in Warsaw, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1845. Mar- 
 ried Minerva Bowen, born in Holmes Co., O., July 31, 
 1845. 
 
 Children: 
 
 1. JENNIE MOSHER, born at La Grange, Ind., Jan. 2, 1868. 
 
 2. BERTHA FIELD, " " " Jan. 2, 1870. 
 
 3. THOMAS, " " " July 11, 1876. 
 
 4. ETHEL GRACE, " " " Feb. 5, 1882. 
 
 5. LAURA C, " Fairbury, Neb., April 27, 1873. 
 
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 4- Laura Mosher, daughter of Clark and Mary 
 Barrows, born in Springville, N. Y., Nov. 17, 1841. 
 Has been a teacher many years in San Francisco. 
 
 5. Edward Clark, son of Clark and Mary Mosher 
 
 Barrows, born at Ontario, Ind., May i, 1859. He is a 
 
 merchant in San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 V. Laura Eunice, daughter of Rev. Charles Mosher, born 
 
 at Phelps, N. Y., March i, 18 18. Married Joshua H. Darling 
 
 at Warsaw, N. Y., June 19, 1845. She died in Warsaw Jan. 
 
 I, 1862. He was a wealthy banker in Warsaw and died there 
 
 March 21, 1869. 
 
 Children : 
 MARGARET ANGEIvINE, born April 7, 1847. 
 LAURA E. born February i, 1849. Died November 4, 1879. 
 EDWARD MOSHER, born June 6, 1852. 
 GRACE, born April 21, 1854. 
 
 KATE, born October 19, 1856. Died September 6, 1889. 
 ALICE, born December 27, 1858. Died March 17, 1886. 
 FREDERICK WARREN, born Feb. 20, i860. Died March 10, 1878. 
 
 1. Margaret Angeline, daughter of Laura E. Mosher 
 and J. H. Darling, was married to James Wood Chap- 
 man, July 25, 1867. 
 
 Children : 
 ROBERT MOSHER, born March 29, 1872. 
 WILLIAM BREWSTER, born October 11, 1875. 
 GRACE DARLING, born November 9, 1877. 
 ARTHUR WOOD, born December 5, 1879. 
 ALICE DARLING, born September 9, 1881. 
 
 2. Edward Mosher Darling, son of Laura E. Mosher 
 and J. H. Darling, was married to Amelia Ferris, July, 
 1876. 
 
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 Children : 
 
 EDWARD FERRIS, born June 23, 1877. Died April 18, 1880. 
 FREDERICK W. DARLING, born March 18, 1879. 
 LAURA AMELIA, born May 9, 1880. 
 JOSHUA FERRIS, born July 13, 1884. 
 CARL MOSHER, born November 10, 1887. 
 
 VI. Rev. William Collins, son of Rev. Charles Mosher, was 
 born at Phelps, N. Y., April 24, 1820. Married, first, Maria 
 lyouisa Billings, daughter of Col. Charles E. Billings and 
 Eunice Storrs, daughter of Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs, of lyong 
 Meadow, Mass, April 2nd, 1857. She died at Mokelumne 
 Hill, Cal., January 3, 1863. Married, second, Mary G. 
 Stratton, at San Francisco, Cal., October 11, 1865. She was 
 daughter of Judge Edward Stratton, of Lexington, Missouri. 
 
 The children of these two marriages are as follows : 
 
 1. William Billings, born in Pontiac, Mich., Feb. 28, 
 1858. He married Nellie May Miller, January 1 1 , 1887 . 
 
 Children : 
 
 HUGH HAROLD, born in Pasadena, Cal., Mar. 23, 1889. 
 LUCEILLE RUTH, born in La Grande, Oregon, June 6, 1891. 
 
 2. Charles Eugene, second son of Rev. W. C. 
 Mosher, was born in Pontiac, Mich., Dec. 27, 1859. 
 He is a machinist and engineer. 
 
 3. Jennie Storrs, daughter of Rev. W. C. Mosher, 
 was born at Mokelumne Hill, Cal., Nov. 12, 1862. 
 These three were children of Maria Louisa Billings, the 
 first wife. 
 
 Jennie Storrs Mosher married Peter Wm. Bruce 
 Walker, March 31, 1890. 
 
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 Children : 
 
 MARIE EDWARDS, born Pasadena, Cal., Sept. 26, 1891. 
 ROBERT BRUCE. " " " Feb. 12, 1893. 
 
 WILLIAM DONAIvD, " " " June 23, 1895. 
 
 4. Edward Stratton, son of Rev. W. C. and Mary 
 Stratton Mosher, was born at Placerville, Cal., August 
 7, 1866. 
 
 5. Lavinia Edwards, daughter of Rev. W. C. and 
 Mary S. Mosher, was born at Madison, Georgia, Dec. 
 13, 1868. Married Albert B. Caldwell, at Pasadena, 
 Cal., Jan. 26, 1887. 
 
 Children : 
 
 MIRIAM WINIFRED, born Oct. 31, 1887. 
 LEWIS RAY, born Sept. 16, 1889. 
 KENNETH LIVINGSTON, born Jan. 7, 1895. 
 
 6. James Walton, son of Rev. W. C. and Mary S. 
 Mosher, was born at Madison, Ga., Oct. 25, 1870. 
 Graduated at the State Normal School, L,os Angeles, 
 Cal., in 1893. Became a teacher. 
 
 7. Herbert Collins, son of Rev. W. C. and Mary 
 S. Mosher, born in Madison, Ga., Oct. 25, 1870. Grad- 
 uated at the State Normal School, in Los Angeles, Cal., 
 in 1893. Became a teacher. 
 
 8. Mary Stratton, daughter of Rev. W. C. and 
 Mary S. Mosher, born in Wilmington, Cal., May 22, 
 1873. Is a kindergarten teacher. 
 
 9. Laura Grace, daughter of the above, born in 
 Pasadena, Cal., August 29, 1876. 
 
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 lo. Robert Parr, son of W. C. and Mary S. 
 Moslier, was born at Pasadena, Cal., Jan. 7, 1884. 
 Died July 8, 1884. 
 
 VII. Reuben Burrage Mosher, the fourth son of Rev. Charles 
 Mosher, was born at Galen, N. Y., June 10, 1822. Married 
 Jane Flint at L,ansing, Mich., Oct., 1850. He died at Ontario, 
 Ind., July, 1870. His wife died in 1856. His son John died 
 in 1855. He was a soldier during the Civil War, was wounded 
 and taken prisoner at Chattanooga in 1864. 
 
 Rev. Charles Mosher, oldest son of L,ieut. John Mosher, was 
 eighteen years old when his father removed to Oneida County, 
 N. Y. Being desirous of obtaining a liberal education, he 
 studied in the academy at Hillsboro, N. H., and at Clinton, 
 N. Y. He received the degree of A. M. from Hamilton Col- 
 lege. His theological studies were directed by Rev. Dr. Hyde, 
 of lyce, Mass. He was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian 
 Church by the Presbytery of Albany. 
 
 After his ordination he received a commission from the Home 
 Missionary Board to go as a Home Missionary to the central 
 parts of the State of New York, where he was directed to 
 organize churches and supply them with ministers. In the 
 prosecution of this work he organized churches at Romulus, 
 Genoa, Phelps, Clyde, Galen, Junius and Reading, and in 
 each of these churches he preached for several years. He died 
 while making a horseback journey to Elmira. On the road he 
 was overtaken by a terrible rain storm, and although his 
 clothes were soaked with water, he rode to Irelandville, where 
 he stayed all night. But his exposure brought on fever and 
 pneumonia which caused his death within four days. He was 
 
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 a good man and abundant in labors. His death occurred Nov. 
 5, 1828. 
 
 Josiah Mosher, fifth son of John William Mosher, was born 
 in Groton, Mass., May 31, 1757 Died at Sanquoit, N. Y., 
 Aug. 15, 1846. Married Rebecca Doolittle, Aug. 31, 1779. 
 She died at Sanquoit, N. Y., May 9, 1832. 
 
 Children : 
 
 GEORGE DOOIvITTIvE, born at 
 
 Pepperell, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 , 17S1. 
 
 NANCY, 
 
 i I 
 
 ( ( 
 
 1785- 
 
 Married Mr. Shepherd. 
 
 
 
 
 BETSY, 
 
 tt 
 
 ( ( 
 
 1789. 
 
 Married Mr. Clark. 
 
 
 
 
 HIRAM, '1 
 
 ti 
 
 i i 
 
 1794. 
 
 BELINDA, 
 
 i ( 
 
 ( ( 
 
 1798. 
 
 Married Mr. Knight. 
 
 
 
 
 POIvLY, 
 
 II 
 
 (( 
 
 1801. 
 
 Married Mr. Luce. 
 
 
 
 
 EMERSON, 
 
 i i 
 
 1 i 
 
 1804. 
 
 Went to Augusta, Ga. 
 
 
 
 
 REBECCA, 
 
 it 
 
 a 
 
 1809. 
 
 Married Dr. Bishop. 
 
 
 
 
 JOSIAH, 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 1811 
 
 CORNELIA A., " " " 1814. 
 
 Died April 18, 1884. 
 
 Cornelia A., daughter of Josiah Mosher, married Sterling 
 A. Millard, November 27, 1839. She died April 18, 1884. 
 He died November 14, 1883. 
 
Children . 
 
 CHARLES STERLING, born September 21, 1840. 
 
 JULIA ELIZABETH, " August 21, 1842. 
 
 GEORGE ARTHUR, " June 4, 1847. 
 
 SARAH JANET, " April 10, 1849. 
 
 ELIZA CORNELIA, " May 26, 1851. 
 
 WILLIAM JOSIAH, " April 25, 1857. 
 
 Julia Elizabeth Millard, daughter of Sterling A. Millard and 
 Cornelia A Mosher, married (first) Norman A. Williams, Oct. 
 10, 1866. He died Oct. 13, 1879. 
 
 Children : 
 
 CORNELIA E , born October 18, 1868. 
 NORMAN ALTON, born Feb. 17, 1872. 
 
 Married (second) Dr. William H. Watson, of Providence, 
 R. I., December 16, 189 1. 
 
 Josiah Mosher was an officer in the Eighth Massachusetts 
 Regiment, and was in seven engagements of the Revolutionary 
 war. When his brother, Lieut. John Mosher, was disabled in 
 the battle of Monmouth he took command of the company 
 and marched with Washington to the Hudson, and to the end 
 of the war. He was a tall athletic man, and had an intel- 
 ligent and noble countenance. 
 
 ABEE MOSHER, third child of Eieut. John and Hannah 
 Warren Mosher, of Pepperell, Mass., was born October 14, 
 1779. Abel Mosher came with his parents to Oneida County 
 in 1791, when twelve years old. He married Sarah, (daughter 
 of Ephriam and Sarah Proctor Warren), in New Hartford, 
 January 10, 1802. She was born at Townsend, Mass., March 
 13, 1782. Abel Mosher was Ensign in the war of 181 2. Died 
 
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 Sept. 25, 1868. He drew to Utica the lumber used to build 
 the first frame house erected in that city. 
 Children: 
 
 I. Warren, born in New Hartford, married Sarah Parsons 
 of Utica. Died . Two children: 
 
 CHARLES, killed in the Civil War, May 12, 1864. 
 SAMUEL PARSONS. 
 
 II. Elizabeth, born in New Hartford, June 12, 1803. Died 
 in Sauquoit, March 29, 1836. Married Chauncey Sage Butler 
 of Sauquoit, May 9, 1826. 
 
 Children: 
 
 1. John Milton Butler, born at Sauquoit, July 9, 
 1827. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1848. 
 He was elected president of Oneida County bank, Utica. 
 Unmarried. 
 
 2. Charles Addison Butler, born August 10, 1829. 
 Graduated from Hamilton College in 1851. Married, 
 August 23, 1871, Martha, daughter of Samuel C. Gil- 
 bert and Martha Davis of Gilbertsville, Otsego Co., 
 N. Y. His wife was born at Gilbertsville, November 
 16, 1841. She died at Utica, February 4, 1898. 
 
 Children. 
 
 Male infaut, died September 11, 1872. 
 ELIZABETH, born October 16, 1873. 
 GILBERT, born December 7, 1886. 
 
 3. Elizabeth Jennette Bntler, was born at Sauquoit, 
 August 21, 1834; married September 11, 1861; P. V. 
 Rogers, son of Dr. Ralph Rogers and Sarah Corse, of 
 Watertown, N. Y. He was born December 30, 1824. 
 Died in Utica, July 2. 1895. Was graduated at Hamil- 
 
ton College in 1846. Was president of First National 
 Bank of Utica. 
 Child: 
 
 CHARLES BUTLER ROGERS, born in Utica, January 
 23, 1865. Graduated at Harvard University 1888. 
 Succeeded his father as president of First National 
 Bank, 1895. Married January 31, 1894, Susan Brayton, 
 daughter of Edward Salisbury Brayton and Catherine 
 Curtenius. She vi^as born November 9, 1865. She 
 died April 3, 1898. 
 
 Chauncey Sage Butler married for a second wife, Julia, 
 daughter of Jacob and Jerusha Huntington Sherrill. 
 
 Child: 
 
 JULIA HENRIETTA BUTLER, born May 23, 1850. 
 
 III. Clarissa, daughter of Abel Mosher, born June 12, 
 1806; died August 25, 1896; married May 4, 1831, David J. 
 Millard, who was born June 6, 1804, and died February 11, 
 
 1875- 
 
 Children: 
 
 I. Sarah Jane, born March 20, 1832; married in 
 
 Clayville, N. Y., October 2, 1861, Samuel Jones L,ook, 
 
 who was born March 6, 1827, at Manheim, N. Y. 
 
 Children: 
 
 DAVID MILLARD, born in Clayville, March 30, 1863. 
 Graduated at Princeton University in 1886; married 
 April 27, 1892, at Albany, N. Y., Mariana Townsend 
 Reed. 
 Children: ' . 
 
 David Millard Look, Jr., born in New York, 
 October 11, 1895. Died in New York, May 6, 
 1898. 
 TowNSKND Reed Look, born May 21, 1897. 
 
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 SAMUEL LOOMIS, born iu Clayville, August lo, 1864: 
 BENJAMIN AVERY, born in Clayville, April 9, 1866. 
 CLARA HELEN, born in Clayville, October 30, 1867. 
 SUSANNA AVERY, born in Clayville, October 21, 1869. 
 RICHARD VEECH, born iu Louisville, Ky., June 7, 1878. 
 
 2. Rebecca Gager, second daughter of D. J. and 
 Clarissa Mosher Millard, was born June 24, 1833; mar- 
 ried February 18, 1856, George Scheuch, who was born 
 in Marburg, Germany, July 25, 1833. 
 
 Children: 
 
 HERMAN, born in Clayville, May 12, 1858; married June 
 12, 1883, Mary Elizabeth Germoud, who was born in 
 Clayville, March 31, 1861. 
 Children: 
 
 EUSE Germond, born March 9, 1885; died July 
 
 30, 1886. 
 Marion EliSE, born June 18, 1888; died May 9, 
 
 1889. 
 Helen Majory, born May 24, 1890. 
 DAVID MILLARD SCHEUCH, born June 24, 1864; died 
 
 February 3, 1880. 
 CLARISSA MILLARD SCHEUCH, born in New York, 
 
 September 15, 1866. 
 HELEN ELISE SCHEUCH, born in New York, Septem- 
 ber 25, 1868. 
 REBECCA SCHEUCH, born in New York, August 9, 
 1870. Married October 2, 1895, William Kerr Clark, 
 of Louisville, Ky. 
 
 3. Helen Clarissa, third daughter of D. J. and 
 Clarissa Mosher Millard, born September 26, 1841. 
 Married June g, 1869, Correl Humphrey, who was born 
 in Albany, N. Y., May 10, 1838. 
 
IV. Mary Anne, fourth child of Abel and Sarah Mosher, 
 was born October lo, 1810. Married Asa Alenson Butler, son 
 of John and Hannah Todd Butler, September 3, 1835. He 
 died in Sauquoit, September 21, 1857. She died April 11, 
 1838. 
 
 Children : 
 
 1. Julia Adelaide, born in Sauquoit, July 7, 1836; 
 married in Utica, May 26, 1868, Erastus Z. Wright, 
 who was born in Utica, March 10, 1829. 
 
 Children : 
 
 MABEL, born iu Utica November 6, 1869. 
 ELIZABETH BUTLER, born in Utica, August 3, 1871. 
 BENJAMIN HAGER, born in Utica, June 27, 1873. 
 JULIA HENRIETTE, born in Utica, June 17, 1877 
 
 Elizabeth Butler Wright married September 15, 1896, 
 Willis N. Mills, a lawyer, in Menominee, Mich., who 
 graduated from Hamilton College in 1894. 
 
 2. Henry Alanson, second child of A. A. Butler and 
 Mary Ann Mosher, was born February 6, 1838; died at 
 Utica, April 29, 1870. 
 
 V. Chauncey, fifth child of Abel and Sarah Mosher, was 
 born July, 182 1 ; married Nancy Dickinson. He died January 
 9, 1850, aged 28 years 5 months 29 days. 
 
 Child : 
 
 Elizabeth, died, aged three years. 
 
 VI. Augustus T., sixth child of Abel and Sarah Mosher, 
 was born April 24, 1819 ; married Catherine I,eRoy, February 
 II, 1849. She was born May 27, 1826. 
 
 Children : 
 
 I. Ada Mosher. born in New York, February 18, 
 
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 1856. She mar/ied in June, 1873, Horace C. Sjdvester. 
 He was born in Westminster, Vt., September 16, 1843. 
 
 Children: 
 
 KATE, born in Paris, France, July 26, 1875. 
 
 N. BRADLEY, born in Paris, France, Miirch 4, 1S79. 
 
 WARREN LEROY, born in Paris, France, May 14, 1882. 
 
 HORACE C, born in New York, June 27, 1883. 
 
 ADA, born in New York, August 12, 1884. 
 
 JACQUELINE, born in New York, February 11, 1889. 
 
 VII. Frank D. Mosher, youngest son of Abel Mosher, 
 born August 10, 1829. Ser^^ed three 3'ears in the Civil War; 
 was wounded and taken prisoner. After the war he became 
 an engineer and resided in New Haven, Conn. 
 
 VI. Daniel, sixth child of John and Hannah Warren 
 Mosher, born April 15, 1786. Married September 7, 18 15, 
 Susanna Barnard, of Rome, who was born September 8, 1787, 
 at Fitzwilliam, N. H. Daniel Mosher died in Waterloo, 
 N. Y., June 13, 1851. Susanna, his wife, died in Phelps, 
 N. Y., May 28, 1869. 
 Children : 
 
 I. Eliza, born August 22, 1816, Whitestown, N. Y..; 
 married January 1 1 , 1842, Hutchins Wight, of Waterloo, 
 N. Y. Hutchins Wight died September, 1882, at 
 
 Waterloo . 
 
 Child: 
 
 WARREN, born August 9, 1842, in Waterloo; lives in 
 North Carolina. Warren Wight married Fannie Norris, 
 of Waterloo, March, 1872. She died June 14, 1886. 
 Their only child, Anna Juniatta Wight, was born in 
 Phelps, N. Y., February 19, 1876. 
 
2. Susan Ann Mosher, second child of Daniel and 
 Susanna Barnard Mosher, was born September i8, 1820, 
 at Waterloo, N. Y.; married January 11, 1848, in 
 Waterloo, to Francis Graves. He died at Waterloo, 
 May II, 1873. No children. 
 
 3. Catharine Mosher, third child of Daniel and 
 Susanna Barnard Mosher, was born in Waterloo, May 
 27, 1828. Married James R. Snow, of Phelps, N. Y., 
 January 11, 1852. He was a ph5^sician. Died June 3, 
 1894, at Phelps, N. Y. No children. She died (of 
 pneumonia) at Phelps, February 4, 1897. 
 
 IX. ABIJAH, ninth child of John and Hannah Warren 
 Mosher, was born March 3, 1794, at Whitestown, N. Y. He 
 married Caroline Condit, May, 1825. She was born December 
 26, 1802. Died Februar}^ i, 1864. He was a soldier of the 
 War of 181 2. 
 
 Children : 
 
 I. George O. Mosher, born March 4, 1833; died March 13, 
 1874. He married Anna Mann, January i, 1859. 
 
 Children . 
 
 CARRIE CONDIT, born June 26, i860; married Morgan L. 
 Froue in 1876; died November 8, 1895. 
 • GERTRUDE E. , born February, 1863 ; died Nov. 8, 1877. 
 HARRIET, born 1865, died 1874. 
 SARAH F., born September 28, 1867. 
 ABBIE, born July 26, 1870. 
 HUGH, born January, 1874, died February, 1874. 
 
 II. Sarah E. Mosher, born September 16, 1834. Unmarried. 
 
 III. David Brainard Mosher, born February 27, 1838 (or 
 January i; 1839). He married Jane Ruddy, July 4, i860. He 
 
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 was a soldier in the Civil War, and a prisoner for nearly a 
 
 year. 
 
 Child : 
 
 William Arthur, born April 2, 1861; married Elea- 
 
 nora Mickley, June 18, 1881. She was born August 
 18, 1857. Children : 
 
 LILLIAN CATHERINE, born March 13, 18S2. 
 HOWARD DAVID, born September 27, 1884. 
 ADALINE MICKLEY, born June 30, 1886. 
 IV. Charles Condit Mosher, born May 8, 1842. Married 
 Maria A. Badgley, April 14, 1869. Had one adopted daugh- 
 ter. She married Arthur M. Seekell, August i, 1888. Maria 
 A. Badgley was born October, 1841. Charles Condit was a 
 Union soldier in the Civil War from October 8, 1861, to June 
 27, 1865, and a prisoner of war in Southern prisons from April 
 20, 1864, to March i, 1865. 
 
 Rev. William C. Mosher, third son of Rev. Charles Mosher, 
 was born at Phelps, N. Y., April 24, 1820. From 1830 to 
 1835, his home was in the family of Wm. R. Collins, first 
 cousin of his mother, in North Guilford, Conn. In 1835 he 
 returned to Ontario Co., N. Y., and in 1837 entered Canandia- 
 gua Academy, where he prosecuted his studies preparatory to 
 entering college. In 1842 he entered Union College, in the 
 Sophomore class, and was graduated in 1845. For one year 
 he was Principal of Springville Academy. For four years he 
 taught a Classical School near Martinsburg, Va., making his 
 home with Hon. Edward Colston, his principal patron, whose 
 children were members of the school. Then for one year he 
 taught in the High School at Alexandria, Virginia. In 1850, 
 
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 he entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J., and 
 prosecuted a three years' course of theological study. After 
 graduation he was ordained by the Presbytery of New Bruns- 
 wick, and commissioned by the Presbyterian Board of Home 
 Missions to go to California and engage in ministerial work. 
 He sailed from New York January 5, 1854, for Aspinwall, 
 crossed the Isthmus on muleback to Panama, and thence 
 sailed to San Francisco, reaching there February 3. Soon 
 after his arrival he took charge of the Presbyterian church in 
 Stockton, where he remained two years, and built up a strong, 
 self-sustaining church. In March, 1856, he returned East as 
 delegate to the General Assembly, which met in New York, 
 and attended all its sessions. He presented an overture to the 
 Assembly for the formation of a new presbytery in California, 
 to be called the Presbytery of Benicia, which was granted. 
 Alter the Assembly adjourned, he spent some time in travel- 
 ling through the Western States, and on the 2d of April was 
 married to Miss Marie Louisa Billings, daughter of Col. Chas. 
 E. Billings, at Trenton, N.Y. She was a niece of Rev Dr. R. 
 S. Storrs, of Braintree, Mass., and cousin of Rev. Dr. R. S. 
 Storrs, of Brooklyn, N. Y. April 27 he removed with his wife 
 to Pontiac, Mich., having received a call to become pastor of 
 the Presbyterian church in that place. Here his two oldest 
 sons were born. In April, i860, he w^as elected a delegate to 
 the General Assembly, which met in Rochester, N. Y., on the 
 15th of May, and attended all its sessions. The health of his 
 wife failing from lung trouble, and requiring a change of cli- 
 mate, he resigned his charge of Pontiac church, with a view 
 to returning to California to try the effect of the climate there . 
 
3-^ 
 
 He sailed with his wife and two children and nurse from New 
 York and reached San Francisco December i6th, i860. He 
 first spent nine months in Watson ville, Santa Cruz County, 
 but finding the climate too foggy and damp he removed to the 
 mountain region in Amador County and located in Jackson, 
 the county seat. In this place and in lone he organized two 
 Presbyterian churches, to which he ministered for a year, and 
 then removed to Mokelumne Hill, six miles north of Jackson, 
 where he resided for three years, and where his wife died 
 January 3, 1863. Though her life was prolonged by a change 
 of climate, yet the change was made too late. She died peace- 
 fully on the Lord's day, committing her infant daughhter, 
 seven weeks old, to the care of her husband's niece, Emily 
 L. Barrows, who had recently arrived from Ontario, Ind., in- 
 tending to reside in his family and teach school. Her arrival 
 was opportune and providential. The child, who was named 
 Jennie Storrs, could not have been committed to more faithful 
 hands. Mrs. Mosher was buried by loving hands, in the beau- 
 tiful cemetery at Mokelumne Hill, a few feet from the grave 
 of Mrs. Daniel Sheldon, a Christian lady who had died two 
 years previously. 
 
 January 3, 1864, Emily L. Barrows was married to Thomas 
 Stevenson. Her place in the family was taken by her sister, 
 L,aura M. Barrows, who had recently arrived from Ontario, 
 Ind. July I, 1865, Rev. W. C. Mosher accepted an invitation 
 to teach Latin and English in the University City College of 
 San Francisco, of which Rev. Dr. P. V. Veeder was president. 
 He taught in the college about nine months, during which 
 time he was married to Miss Mary G. Stratton, daughter of 
 
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 Judge Edward Stratton, of Lexington, Mo., who was then re- 
 siding in San Francisco. The marriage ceremony was per- 
 formed b}^ Rev. Dr. Charles Wadsworth, pastor of Calvary 
 Church . 
 
 After his marriage Mr. Mosher removed to Placerville, Cal., 
 where he supplied the Presbyterian Church for about one year. 
 Having been offered strong inducements to go to Georgia and 
 labor among the freedmen, he decided to go, and removed 
 there with his family in March, 1867. He went to New York 
 by steamer and thence by rail to Madison, Georgia. He re- 
 mained in Georgia four years, during which time he estab- 
 lished schools for the freedmen, gave them religious instruc- 
 tion, and at the same time preached to the white churches in 
 Madison and Mouticello. In April, 1871, he returned to Cali- 
 fornia, where for three years he preached to the Presbyterian 
 Church in Wilmington, Los Angeles County, and then re- 
 moved to the place where Pasadena now stands. It was then 
 an open country and used as a sheep pasture. He went to this 
 place in July, 1871, and bought 40 acres of land, part of which 
 he planted in trees and vines. The land had been purchased 
 by Calvin Fletcher, of Indianapolis, for a colony, and was 
 named the Indiana Colony, but the name was afterwards 
 changed to Pasadena. Within a few months Mr. Mosher 
 organized a Presbyterian church, to which he ministered for 
 two years, and then resigned his pastorate to engage in home 
 mission work, chiefly among the Spanish-speaking people. 
 By the distribution of Spanish testaments and tracts, and by 
 personal conversation , he prepared the way for organization of 
 several Spanish churches. He also put into circulation thou- 
 
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 sands of Christian books, tracts and Sunday school literature, 
 and visited every part of the six southern counties of California 
 many times. He preached nearly every Sabbath, and was in- 
 strumental in the establishment of many churches. His entire 
 ministry up to the year 1898 has been 48 years. The number 
 of his children has been six sons and four daughters, of whom 
 one son died in infancy. He has seen Pasadena develop from 
 a sheep pasture to a beautiful city of 12,000 inhabitants. As 
 old age came on he felt the necessity of retiring from ministerial 
 work and promoting the welfare of his family, and of the city 
 of which he was one of the oldest residents, 
 
 The Star newspaper, of Pasadena, Cal., in 1886 published 
 the following article : — 
 
 Congressman Markham presented to Congress a Bill for the payment 
 of a claim due the heirs of Capt. John Mosher, who served five years 
 during the Revolutionary War, without pay, was disabled at the battle 
 of Monmouth, and permitted by General Washington to retire on half 
 pay for life, as a supernumerary officer. He died in 1817, having re- 
 ceived none of the pay to which he was entitled. He saw five years of 
 hard service in the war. 
 
 This is the oldest claim before Congress, and is of interest not only 
 because of its age, but because of the historical associations connected 
 with it. Capt. John Mosher was authorized by the Colony of Massa- 
 chusetts Bay, in 1775, to recruit a company of foot soldiers. His com- 
 mission was signed by Joseph Warren, afterwards famous in the Revo. 
 lutionary war. In the following year his company of foot soldiers 
 became a part of the Continental Army, and Mosher's commission as 
 captain was signed by John Hancock. Mosher was at the head of his 
 company at Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill, and when General 
 Warren was killed he fell into Mosher's arms, who supported his head 
 until he died. Mosher had two brothers killed in this battle. He also 
 
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 took an active part iu the battles of Saratoga, White Plains, Long 
 Island, Brandywine and Germantown, and in the battle of Monmouth he 
 fell from a sunstroke, being overcome by the excessive heat. He was 
 carried off the field by Major Hull. As he was never able to do military 
 duty afterwards. General Washington gave him the following certificate: 
 
 "This may certify that Lieut. John Mosher, of the 8th Mass. Regi- 
 ment, served in said regiment as a captain from January i, 1776, to 
 January i, 1780, and then retired on the resolutions of Congress of 
 October 3rd and 21st, 1780, as supernumerary officer. During the service 
 he ever behaved as an officer and gentleman. 
 
 "GEO. WASHINGTON." 
 
 Thus it was proved that as supernumerary officer he was entitled to 
 five years' pay for actual service, and to half pay for life. Although he 
 was commissioned a lieutenant, he was the actual commander of his 
 company, the nominal captain being on the sick list with leave of 
 absence, and died. The claim was presented to the House by Hon. 
 Reuben Felton, of New York, and acted upon favorably by the House, 
 but was never taken up by the Senate. Hon. H. H. Markham has all 
 the original papers and proofs, which are yellow with age, and almost 
 priceless for the signatures they contain. 
 
 GENEAI.OGY OF THE FAMILY OF EVAN MOSHER, 
 OF I.ONG BEACH, CAL- 
 
 1. Ensign Hugh Mosher, son of Stephen Mosher, of Man- 
 
 chester, England, born about a.d. 16 10. Died at 
 Dartmouth. 1700. 
 
 2. Hugh Mosher 2d, son of the above, born 1633, died 
 
 17 13. Married Rebecca Harndell. 
 
 3. Joseph, third son of the above, born 1670, at Dartmouth, 
 
 Mass.; died 1754. Married I^ydia Tabor, born 1673. 
 
 4. James, son of the above, born December 18, 1704. Mar- 
 
 ried Sarah Da vol, December 25, 1729. 
 
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 5- ICHABOD, son of the above, born 1750, died 18 15. 
 
 6. Jonathan, second son of the above, born 1786, died 1848. 
 
 7. Leonard, sixth son of Jonathan, born 181 1, died Sept. 
 
 14, 1886. Children : 
 
 Evan, Margaret, Weeden G., Charles L., Mrs. Helen C. Taitt. 
 
 8. Evan, son of L,eonard Mosher, born August 4, 1840. His 
 
 daughter, Katharine Anthea, born in Governeur, N.Y., 
 November 6, 1875. 
 
 GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF SARAH 
 ELIZABETH (MOSHER) WEAVER. 
 
 Jonathan, second son of Ichabod Mosher, mentioned above, 
 born 1786, died 1848. Children were : 
 
 Duty, Anna, Alanson, Weeden, Stephen, Eunis, Lydia 
 Leonard. 
 
 Knnis, the sixth son of Jonathan, was born ? Married 
 
 Catherine Barbour, 183S. Children were : 
 
 Charles, Albert, Sarah Elizabeth, Adelia and Ferdinand. 
 Sarah Elizabeth Mosher was born in McKej^sville, Jeffer- 
 son County, N.Y., May 25, 1840. Married George E. 
 Weaver December 22, 1862. Children : 
 Kate E., Clarence Jones, and Ralph Mosher. 
 
 GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF E. BRADFORD 
 MOSHER, OF CHICAGO. 
 
 1. Ensign Hugh Mosher, son of Stephen Mosher, of Man- 
 
 chester, Eng., born about 16 10. 
 
 2. Rev. Hugh Mosher 2d, son of the above, born 1633. 
 
 Married Rebecca Harndell. 
 
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 3- Daniel, fifth son of Mugh Mosher and, and grandson of 
 Ensign Mugh Mosher, born 1678, died 1751, at Dart- 
 mouth. Married Elizabeth Edwards, 1704. 
 
 1. Constant, fourth son of Daniel, born September 
 II, 1 7 13, at Dartmouth, Mass. Married Sarah 
 Sherman, October 5, 1737, at Dartmouth. 
 
 2. EiviHU, seventh son of Constant, born 1789, Jan. 
 13, at Dartmouth; died April 21, 1873, at New 
 Bedford, Mass. Married Merribah Shepherd, born 
 Nov. 19, 1794, at Dartmouth, died May 3, 1864, at 
 New Bedford. 
 
 3. Elihu Mott, son of the above, born February 
 28, 1824, at New Bedford. Married Adelia Ann 
 Mathaway, widow of Abijah Mathaway, daughter 
 of Joseph and Nancy (Martin) Peck, March 10, 
 1850. Born February 15, 1829, at Pawtucket, R.I. 
 
 4. E. Bradford, third son of the above, born Jan. 
 24, i860, at New Bedford, Mass. Married, Sept. 
 24, 1889, Sarah Adelaide Chadwick, daughter of 
 Moses and Sarah Ann Davis, born March 9, 1863. 
 
 Their children: 
 
 he Roy Bradford, bora at Chiqago, July 18, 1890. 
 Angeline Kent, " '■ June 17, 1892. 
 
 Allen Alpha, " " Feb. 26, 1896. 
 
 Leona Beta, " " Feb. 26, 1896. 
 
 He is collecting material for a genealogy of the entire 
 Mosher family. 
 
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 GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF LEROY 
 EUGENE MOSHER. 
 
 1 . Ensign and Rev. Hugh Mosher, son of Stephen Mosher, 
 
 of Manchester, England, came to Boston in 1636. 
 
 2. Rev. Hugh Mosher, 2nd, born 1633, died 1713. 
 
 3. James, son of Hugh, 2nd, born 1675, died 1739. 
 
 4. Daniel, son of James, born 1705, died 1784. 
 
 5. Aaron Wells Vermont, son of Daniel, born 1776, died 
 
 1864. Married Ruth Richardson. 
 
 6. Arch ALAUS, son of Aaron, born at Rutland, Vt., 181 1. 
 
 Married 1840 to Cynthia Jane McCullough. 
 
 7. Leroy Eugene, son of Archalaus, born 1849 in Chau- 
 
 taugua county, N. Y., married Katie Bayliss 1872, 
 married Emma White-Solis 1879, married Ray Baum, 
 of San Francisco, 1888. 
 
 8. Maud Bayliss, daughter of Leroy Eugene and Katie 
 
 Bayliss, born 1873. 
 
 9. Katie Eugenia, daughter of Leroy Eugene and Katie 
 
 Bayliss, born 1878. 
 
 10. Cephas Freeland, son of Archalaus, born 1845, mar- 
 
 ried Lena Wallace, 1870. 
 
 Children : 
 
 LEO W., born 187 1 
 ARTHUR A., born 1873. 
 IVAN v., born 1877. 
 MYRTIE E., born 1880. 
 
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 I.EROY EUGENE MOSHER 
 
 At present Managing Editor of the Los Angeles Times, was 
 in 1857 taken by his parents to the State of Kansas, where his 
 mother died, on a wild western prairie, when the boy was but 
 eight years of age. Soon after his mother's death, the lad 
 was put out to live on a farm and at the age of nine years 
 was doing a man's work behind the plow, as well as the 
 usual boy's "chore work" in addition. His pay for the first 
 year was his board, and schooling in winter. The second 
 year he was to get $5 per month, but the pay never material- 
 ized. After having been shifted about among different 
 families as a "bound boy" so to speak, young Mosher soon 
 after his fourteenth birthday (having made two previous at- 
 tempts to enter the army, the first time in 1861, when he was 
 ambitious to become a drummer bo3^) enlisted in a Kansas 
 Cavalry Regiment, (the gth) serving the last year and a half 
 of the civil war as bugler, and at the age of fifteen was 
 promoted to wear the stripes of a corporal. Soon after 
 being mustered out of the army, he went to a district school 
 for ten months, which concluded his "education." 
 
 In 1867, the subject of this sketch entered the railway 
 service in Kansas, and served several different eastern corpor- 
 ations in minor positions from telegraph operator to station 
 agent. He came to California in 1874, entering the service, 
 soon after his arrival, of the Cerro Gordo Freighting Company, 
 a teaming enterprise engaged in bringing silver and lead 
 bullion from the mines at Panamint to the railroad at San 
 Fernando, and other points. In 1875, he became connected 
 with the Southern Pacific Company as agent, first at San Fer- 
 
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 nando and later at Compton and Colton, in California, serving 
 at the latter place for five years. In 1880, he was given charge 
 of the station at Stockton, and in 1883 was transferred to the 
 local agency at L,os Angeles, and in 1885 was promoted to be 
 general commercial agent of that company, and given charge 
 of all traffic in Southern California. 
 
 On January i, 1887, he resigned from the railway service to 
 engage in the organization of a gas corporation in the city of 
 I^os Angeles, with which he remained connected until 1889, 
 when the two city gas companies consolidated. The same 
 year of his resignation from the railway service, Mr. Mosher 
 became one of the owners of the Los Angeles Times, but did 
 not become directly connected otherwise with the. paper until 
 1 89 1, when he assumedthedutiesof dramatic critic and special 
 writer. The following year he was made the paper's business 
 manager, and continued in that capacity until 1895, when he 
 was transferred to the editorial department and in June, 1898, 
 was made managing editor, upon the entry of the paper's chief 
 owner. General Harrison Gray Otis, into the military service 
 of the United States in the war against Spain. Mr. Mosher is 
 actively in newspaper harness and his work is constantly be- 
 fore the people in the great journal of the southern part of the 
 State, The Times, which is a power for law and order and the 
 general good of the land. 
 
 The name Hugh Mosher, son of John Mosher of Manches- 
 ter, England, who spent most of his life in India, is associated 
 with a great fortune which he made in India, during the 17th 
 
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 Century. After his death his property was estimated at 
 ^32,000,000. Reliable traditions show that he became a mem- 
 ber of the East India Company, and that he made investments 
 in the stocks of that company which became very valuable. 
 He was sent by the company to India as secretary to Gov. 
 Charnock; who, after his arrival, established trading posts on 
 the Hoogly river, an affluent of the Ganges, 100 miles from 
 the sea. Calcutta had no existence prior to 1686. In that 
 year Gov. Charnock, who had been trading higher up the river, 
 obtained from the native ruler of Bengal a large tract of land 
 twenty-six miles lower down the river. On his land stood 
 three mud villages, one of which was named Calicut — a name 
 which Charnock changed to Calcutta. Here he built a fort 
 and established a factory, at which an immense trade was 
 carried on. Calcutta grew rapidly, and at length became the 
 metropolis of British India. 
 
 After Gov. Charnock had secured the land above mentioned, 
 he permitted Hugh Mosher, his secretary, to purchase a part 
 of it. He selected that part most remote from the river be- 
 cause the land there was more elevated than the low lands 
 along the river, and for that reason more healthful. After- 
 wards, when its healthfulness was discovered, it was sought 
 after for residences by the wealthier citizens, and became the 
 fashionable portion of the city. In a few years the rise in the 
 value of real estate made Hugh Mosher one of the wealthiest 
 residents of Calcutta. Before his death his estate was valued 
 at ^32,000,000. 
 
 In his old age he returned to England, where, in considera- 
 tion of his wealth and the valuable services he had rendered 
 
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 to the East India Company, he was elevated to the peerage, 
 and created a baron. 
 
 As he left no children to inherit his property, and as no heirs 
 appeared to claim it for a century, it probably reverted to the 
 English Crown. 
 
 The Compiler is indebted to the following Autho7'ities for the 
 ififorynation necessary to construct a coi'rect History and 
 Genealogy of the Mosher Family : — 
 
 Colonial Period, by Thomas Savage, Vol. I., p. 30. 
 
 Records of Mass. Bay Colony, Vol. I., p. 219. 
 
 Hist, of Falmouth, Me., Vol. I., p. 30. 
 
 Narragansett Hist. Register, Vol II , p. 291. 
 
 Austin's Genealogical Diet., p. 134-138. 
 
 Butler's Hist, of Groton, p. 153-157. 
 
 Lexington Alarm Book. 
 
 History of Greenwich, Conn. 
 
 New England Historical and Genealocical Register. 
 
 Essex Institute Historical Collections, 33 Vols. 
 
 Mss. of Rev. Charles Mosher, 1828.