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WILLIAM MOSLEY, JR.
Vol. 3 p. 1185-1186

One of the progressive young bankers and business men of Oklahoma,
William MOSLEY, Jr., is cashier of the People's Bank of Hickory. His
father, William Mosley, Sr., is vice president of this institution,
and the president is A. G. ADAMS, who is also president of the First
National Bank of Ada. The bank is capitalized at $10,000 and has
surplus and undivided profits of $7,500. The bank was established in
1904, and in 1908 became a state bank. A building was constructed for
its use in 1907, but was burned in 1909, and the present bank
building on Jefferson Street was erected in 1911.

Born in Troy, Mississippi, August 5, 1887, William Mosley, Jr., is a
son of William and Mollie (GARRETT) MOSLEY. His father was born in
Bedford County, Tennessee, in 1854, and his mother near Troy,
Mississippi, in 1855. The MOSLEYs were Scotch-Irish people who
settled in Tennessee in very early times. William Sr., was reared in
the vicinity of Okolona, Mississippi, and after his marriage moved to
Troy, a place not very far distant from Okolona. In October, 1887, he
went to Love State, twenty miles below Memphis, and in 1891 to
Houston, Mississippi. In 1900 he came to Davis, Oklahoma, and in the
same year moved to Hickory, where he became one of the pioneer
merchants. He has been engaged in the mercantile business for the
past thirty-five years. While living at Houston, Mississippi, he
served as town marshal and for four years and has bee a member of the
school board at Hickory. He is a democrat, a member of the Baptist
Church and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Woodmen
of the Worlds. His children are: Pearl, wife of Dr. B. F. MCNEIL of
Swifttown, Mississippi; Zach T., who is a partner with his father in
business; William Jr.; and Annie, bookkeeper for the mercantile firm
of Mosleys.

The early education of Mr. Mosley was acquired in the common schools
at Houston and the high school at Okolona from which he graduated in
1903. For two years he attended college at Paris, Texas, and in 1905,
at the age of eighteen found a position as clerk in the store of his
uncle J. B. MOSLEY at Hickory, Indian Territory for two years. Then
in association with his father, and his two brothers Zach and Wade,
he bought out the general store of J. B. MOSLEY and the business has
since been continued by other members of the family. In 1906 William
Mosley, Jr., left the firm and went to Draughon's Business College at
Denison, Texas, and finishing the course was bookkeeper for the
Mosley mercantile house until February, 1913. He then bought an
interest in the People's Bank of Hickory, and has since been not only
cashier but active manager in full charge of the institution.

In politics he is a democrat, is a member of the Baptist Church,
belongs to the Oklahoma State Bankers Association, and is affiliated
with Camp No. 236, Wodmen of the World, at Hickory.

On December 1, 1910, at Hickory, he married Miss Cora Lee MITCHELL,
daughter of J. P. Mitchell, a farmer at Hickory. They are the parents
of two children: Jack born January 27, 1912; and Malcolm, born
November 6, 1913.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Jacque Hopkins Wolski, October 25, 1998.