John Moses
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1825 – 1898
Who was John Moses?
John Moses was an Illinois judge, politician, banker and historian. His magnum opus was Illinois, Historical and Statistical, published in 1892, which weighs in at more than 1300 pages and took its author eleven years to complete.
Moses was born in 1825 in Niagara Falls, New York. He arrived in Naples, Illinois with his family in 1837.
Moses served for some time as the county judge for Scott County, and hosted Abraham Lincoln at his office in Winchester during the 1858 campaign. He served as private secretary to Governor Yates during the Civil War.
In 1874, Moses was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as a Republican, serving in the 29th General Assembly as one of the three representatives of the 38th District, which comprised the counties of Scott, Pike and Calhoun. He included an especially detailed recounting of that chaotic session in his 1892 history.
When away from political life, Moses worked as a farmer and banker. He bought out the failed People's National Bank of Winchester in 1875, operating under the name "John Moses & Co.," although he was the sole member of the firm until 1876.
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