- LUCIUS S. MOSELEY, of the town of Beloit, Rock County, is
one of the older and more
- successful farmers of that region. He has spent his life
in the cultivation of the soil and kind nature has richly rewarded
his continuous and honorable industry. In the town of Beloit
he is spoken of by his neighbors as an honest and upright man,
who is at once a good neighbor and respected citizen of the community.
- Mr. MOSELEY was born in Bureau County, Ill., July 26, 1843,
but received his early training in
- the town of Beloit, for his parents removed to Rock County
when he was but a child. He had received a good common school
education, and was prepared to enter Beloit College at the outbreak
of the Civil war. He enlisted Aug. 14, 1862, in Company B, 22d
Wis. V.I. On the battlefield of Spring Hill, Tenn., he was made
corporal, and was afterward taken prisoner, with almost the
entire command. Mr. MOSELEY was confined in Libby prison for
a short time, was then paroled, and was at the camp at St. Louis
for about two months, when the command was reorganized and sent
to the front. He served as a soldier until the close of the
war, and took part in many fierce and bloody battles, being at
Resaca and Peach Tree Creek, and with Gen. Sherman on the march
to the sea. Several times was Mr. MOSELEY struck by flying missiles,
but never seriously injured. He was mustered out at Washington,
and finally discharged at Milwaukee.
- Our subject was engaged in farming some months after his
return home at the close of the war,
- and then did teaming in the city of Beloit for about two
years, working for the Rock River Paper Co. Then he resumed
farming on rented land, and finally purchased the farm where
he now lives, containing 120 acres, on which he has made many
handsome improvements. In his early life Mr. MOSELEY learned
the trade of a carpenter, and still follows it in connection
with farming. He is an active and industrious man, and does
not mean to let any time go to waste.
- Mr. MOSELEY is a member of L.H.D. Crain Post, Grand Army
of the Republic, at Beloit, has
- been its commander two terms, and takes a deep interest in
the welfare of all the "old boys," comrades on the
tented field in the long ago. He has also been president of
the Rock County ex-Soldiers and Sailors Association. Mr. MOSELEY
takes considerable interest in public affairs, and has filled
several office is in the town of Beloit, having been collector
for five years, and has been assessor and supervisor. He is
a strong Republican.
- Mr. MOSELEY was married in Beloit, Wis., Dec. 16, 1869, to
Miss Fanny M. BRITTAN,
- who was born in Elbridge, N.Y., May 22, 1847. They have
five children, Metta M., Harry L., Hubert B., Jessie V., and
Florence H. The young people of the family are bright and promising,
and will very shortly make their influences felt in the world.
- Selden D. and Harriet W. (GAGE) MOSLEY, our subject's parents,
were born in Connecticut
- and New Hampshire, respectively. They were married in Bureau
County, Ill., and came soon after to Rock County, where they
spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of
four children, of whom Lucius S. was the second child. The father
of Mrs. Lucius S. MOSELEY was Alfred BRITTAN, and her mother
Elvira (ARMSTRONG) BRITTAN. He was born in England, and she
in New York. They were married in that State, and came to Rock
County in 1855, and here passed the rest of their lives. They
were the parents of four daughters and one son, and Mrs. MOSELEY
was the eldest of their family.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 357-358.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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