Name/Title
Moss, Josiah Beatie, as Boy & Young Man, Portrait Photos (2), c. 1860 & 1870Entry/Object ID
1994.1H.100Description
Moss, Josiah Beatie, as Boy & Young Man, Portrait Photos (2), c. 1860 & 1870. b/w. Photo of two portrait photos taken of J.B. Moss, age c. age 11, the other as a young man.
Moss was a prominent business man in St. Joseph from the 1870s- 1930s. He died at age 92 in 1941. Moss's mother was a member of the Beatie (Beattie) family, also prominent in St. Joseph business. Moss's father, among other things, had a lumber yard off St. Joseph Avenue. He died when J.B. was a boy, but in later life Moss made his fortune in the lumber business in St. Joseph. Moss built his castle like home on the southeast corner of 9th & Angelique, on the lot where the home of his uncle & guardian had sat. It stills stands in 2020. He married when a man in his 40s.
Born in 1849, Moss experienced must of the important history and knew most of the important citizens from the days of emigrant wagon trains, gold rush, Civil War, Jesse James, Eugene Field, Spanish-American War, World War I and the Great Depression. As an elderly man he wrote his memories into a column that ran serially in the local newspaper. (For a history of St. Joseph according to his memories, see the book "Gathering Moss" compiled by Gary Westcott)
94.1H.100 = Moss as a lad c. age 11. Formal portrait photo of Moss standing by chair with his left hand on the back. He is wearing long pants, waist-length jacket, opened except for top button, small bow tie. He has dark hair.
94.1H.101 = Moss as young man c. age 20s. Head/shoulders view, Moss has dark hair, worn a bit longish, clean shaven, wearing lighter jacket with dark vest beneath, white bow tie.
Original digital scan located on History CD 04Made/Created
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1860 - 1870Place
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St. JosephState/Province
MissouriNotes
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J. B. Moss