Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County, Michigan Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884 [312-313] STEPHEN A. MOSHER, general merchant and dealer in agricultural implements at Soule village, was born June 25, 1832, in Oswego, N.Y. In his paternal line of descent he is of traceable English lineage, his ancestral progenitors having come to New England from Manchester, England. MR. MOSHER, senior, came to Livingston Co., Mich., in 1853, and later in life to Huron County, arriving at the residence of his son in November, 1882, where he died three weeks after, aged 70 years. The mother, ELIZA J. (BROCK) MOSHER, was a native of New York, of New England parentage and English descent. She was the daughter of JOHN D. and ANNA BROCK, the former belong- ing to the same line of descent with GENERAL BROCK, commander of the loyalists in Mackenzie's War. She died in Shiawassee Co., Mich., in 1857. The parents came in 1840 to Erie Co., Ohio, where the family located on a farm. The son assisted in the agricultural operations until he was 14 years of age, when he went to work on the Wabash Canal, remaining in that avenue of employ two years. He next went to Rochester, N.Y., where he became an auctioneer and passed two years in that occupation, coming in 1852 to Hillsdale Co., Mich. He engaged as salesman in a store at Jonesville, where he continued to operate one year. His health becoming seriously impaired, he returned to his parents home in Livingston County, where he passed two years in his recovery. His first occupation on convalescence was in the capacity of farm assistant and afterwards as a mill hand. MR. MOSHER belongs in the vanguard of the patriots who responded to the first cry of the Nation for succor against rebellious insur- gents, as he enlisted in the Ninth Reg. Mich. Inf., Co. I. The regiment was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland under the command of Generals SHERMAN and GRANT. He was under fire in the battles of Mill Springs, Fort Donelson, Murfreesboro, Lebanon and Chattanooga. He was captured (July 12, 1862) at the battle of Murfursboro (sic). He was in the hands of the rebels for three days and contrived to make his escape through strategy, though at great risk. He was accompanied by a comrade and they made a successful effort to regain their liberty, joining the Union army at Nashville after six weeks slow, perilous and tedious travel through the "bush," which had to be done by night. They subsisted on berries and the hoe-cake of the negro cabins they passed on their way toward the north star. They traversed about 100 miles and were almost naked when they found themselves in safe quarters. MR. MOSHER was honorably discharged Oct. 15, 1863. He suffered no injury save from the exhaustion consequent upon his great fatigue, and probably experienced no greater hardships than fell to the fate of most of the soldiers of the gallant Ninth Michigan, celebrated in the annals of the war for its fighting qualities. (A fact not commonly recorded in the history of the Ninth is, that the closing volley at the rebels just previous to the surrender of GENERAL JOHNSTON was fired by a detachment from the "Ninth.") After being released from the military service of the United States, his family removed to Genesee Co., Mich. In December, 1874, they came to Huron County and located at Bad Axe, removing a year later to Oliver Township, where MR. MOSHER entered a claim of 120 acres of land on sections 1 and 12, where he resided a few years, and on which he made many improvements. In 1880 he exchanged his farm for two acres in the village plat of Soule, containing a building where he established the business interests named. He was appointed Postmaster at Soule in 1880, and is also Justice of the Peace. In political connection he is an adherent of the National Greenback party. He was one of the princi- pal agents in the organization of the township of Oliver, and was the first Justice after it became an independent municipality. He was a member of the Board which arranged its local affairs and afterward held successively most of the local positions. He was married Oct. 25, 1856, at Howell, Livingston Co., Mich., to MARY A. GARLOCK. Two children born to them are deceased — JULIA L. and MARTHA J. MARY C., FRANCIS D., RICHARD L., WILLIAM H. and SUSAN A. are living. MRS. MOSHER was born Sept. 15, 1838, in Wayne Co., N.Y. Her parents removed to Livingston Co., Mich., when she was five years old and she continued to reside there and in Genesee County until her marriage. Her father, REV. RICHARD GARLOCK, became a minister when 18 years of age and died June 22, 1876, in Genesee County, dying, as nearly as could be determined, by the hand of violence. He was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was 64 years of age at the time of his demise. Her mother, MARTHA (CURTIS) GARLOCK, was also a native of Wayne Co., N.Y., and died in Genesee Co., Mich., in 1854, aged 42 years. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================