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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Joseph J. MOSHER 

Transcribed exactly according to the original complete text by Alice Stipak. 

[Surnames: ACKERSON, DUFFIE, HARMISON, HILL, MILLARD, MORGAN, MOSHER] 

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MOSHER, Joseph J., who was formerly engaged in farming in the vicinity of Cuba, Fulton County, Ill., but now a prosperous real-estate dealer in the city of Cuba, was born there June 6, 1836, a son of Joseph and Catherine (Ackerson) Mosher, natives of Maine and Ohio, respectively. Joseph Mosher went from Maine to Ohio at an early period. There he married and in 1829 settled in Putman Township, Fulton County, where he entered a quarter section of land in Section 18 of that township, and where he lived and later carried on farming and stock-raising. 
    
The subject of this sketch was reared on his father's farm, in boyhood receiving his training in the public schools of the vicinity. As he grew up he applied himself successfully to farming, continuing this occupation until a few years ago, when he abandoned it and devoted his attention to real estate, selling lots and lands. In 1877 he bought eighty acres of military bounty land within the city limits of Cuba, on which he made improvements. The property was first owned in 1818 by Daniel Morgan, but Mr. Mosher purchased it from the Harmison estate. He is also the owner of 150 acres in Section 6, Putman Township; sixty acres in Section 14; fifty acres in Section 22, and has 800 acres in South Dakota, making his real-estate holdings over 1,000 acres, besides considerable property in Cuba. He now rents all of his farming property and whatever business he does is in the line of home lots and western lands. 
    
On January 28, 1857, Mr. Mosher was united in marriage with Harriet R. Hill, who was born in the State of New York. Six children [page 1008] resulted from this union, namely: Charles; Jerome, who died aged thirty-five years; Fred; Helen; Catherine (Mrs. S. C. Duffie), who with her family resides with her father, and Mary (Mrs. Leroy Millard), residing in Cuba. 
    
Politically Mr. Mosher is an Independent, voting for the men and measures he thinks to the best interest of all the people, and in his religious relations is a member of the Christian Church.