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per week with board. Her eldest daugh-
ter, Anna M. Wickham, became the wife
of George Edward Churchill, as previ-
ously noted. They were the parents of
two children : Almeron Seymour, born
July 27, 1889; Louisa Ann, September
12, 1898. Almeron S. Churchill married,
April 6, 1915, Mary Johnson, daughter of
Joseph H. Johnson, of Elmwood, Connec-
ticut, and they are the parents of a son,
Edward Charles Churchill, born June 14,
1916.
MOSER, Oran Alexander,
Physician.
Dr. Oran A. Moser is probably of German
descent, and traces his ancestry to
Hans Michael Moser, who came from
Switzerland to the United States in 1751,
and settled in Pennsylvania.
His second son, Peter Moser, was the
father of Peter Moser, born in Northampton
county, Pennsylvania, in 1796. He
removed to the State of Ohio, where he
left several children. One of these was
Osiah Anthony Moser, born July 27, 1823,
in Northampton county, Pennsylvania.
He married, about 1845, Mary Ruckman,
born September 2, 1824, in Ohio, daugh-
ter of John Ruckman, who was born in
Pike county, Ohio, about 1724, descend-
ant of a Virginia family. They settled in
Madison county, Iowa, and in 1880 moved
to Jewell county, Kansas, where Mr.
Moser died May 6, 1893. Mrs. Moser died
April 24, 1893. Osiah A. Moser enlisted
at the beginning of the Civil War, as a
member of Company K, Tenth Iowa In-
fantry, and was wounded at the battle of
Vicksburg, May 22, 1863, causing his dis-
charge on account of disability. He never
fully recovered from this injury. For
some time he was county surveyor of
Madison county, Iowa, and about fifteen
years recorder of deeds, until his removal
to Kansas.
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Dr. Oran A. Moser, youngest of the
eleven children of Osiah A. and Mary
(Ruckman) Moser, was born July 1, 1871,
in Patterson, Madison county, Iowa.
When only nine years of age he removed
with his parents to the State of Kansas,
and both died when he was twenty-two
years old. As a boy the son was accustomed
to work upon a farm, attending the
district school only in winter after he was
old enough to be of service to himself.
After leaving the farm he found employment
as a nurse at Beatrice, Nebraska.
There he spent three years in the High
School, and removed thence to Waterbury,
Connecticut, in 1897. In the following year
he was graduated from the High School
there. Entering Yale Medical School, he
was graduated with the degree of M. D.
in 1902. He provided largely the expense
of his medical education by working at
various occupations. After graduation,
for one year he was resident physician at
the State Prison in Wethersfield. In 1903
he established himself at Rocky Hill,
where he is now successfully engaged in
practice.
Dr. Moser has attained his ambition
wholly through his own efforts, sustain-
ing himself after ten years of age, overcoming
misfortunes and difficulties. He
has obtained recognition as a physician
of worth, and is a member of the Hartford
City, Hartford County, and State Medical
societies, and the National Medical
Association. He is actively identified
with the Congregational church of Rocky
Hill, being at the present time (1918)
chairman of its board of trustees. While
not actively engaged in political action,
he sustains well-founded principles and is
a supporter of the Republican party.
Dr. Moser married (first) Mary Etta
Wolf, a native of Pennsylvania, who died
February 14, 1916. He married (second)
September 27, 1916, Lottie Kierstead, of
East Hartford, Connecticut, daughter of