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AUSTIN FLINT MOSS
Vol. 3, p. 1123, 1124

The rapid growth and development of the City of Tulsa as the
metropolis of the oil and gas district of Oklahoma has naturally
attracted to that center many men of foremost ability in both
business and the professions. Austin F. Moss is one of the leading
lawyers who has recently identified himself with Tulsa after a broad
experience as a lawyer in other sections of Oklahoma. Mr. Moss
possesses a fine heritage from worthy and honorable ancestors, solid
native ability, is one of the fortunate men who started life with a
liberal education, and with a dozen years of experience in the law he
is fortified for success at practice.

Austin Flint Moss was born at Hodgenville, LaRue County, Kentucky,
January 22, 1880. His parents are Richard H. and Harriet Ann (MEANS)
Moss. His grandfather, Thomas H. Moss, was born in Green County,
Kentucky, in 1821, and died in 1915 at the age of ninety-four. He was
a farmer and stock raiser, indulged the typical taste of a Kentucky
gentleman in fine saddle horses, and was also an extensive grower of
tobacco. His local prominence drew him into politics, and for two
terms he was a member of the Kentucky Legislature. He was a stanch
old Kentucky democrat. Richard H. Moss, father of the Tulsa lawyer,
was born in Green County, Kentucky, in 1849, was educated in the
University of Louisville, became a physician and for about thirty
years was engaged in practice at Hodgenville in LaRue County. His
activities have been widely extended, and in 1896 he was elected a
member of the Legislature and reelected in 1898, after which he was
connected with the office of the internal revenue collector for about
three years, and was then again elected to the Legislature for one
term. In recent years he has been engaged in the retail drug trade at
Hodgenville. Austin F. Moss has one brother, Burdett H. Moss.

Mr. Moss was educated in the public schools at Hodgenville, the
South Kentucky College at Hopkinsville, attended the Cumberland
University at Lebanon, Tennessee, and finished his law studies with
the class of 1900 at Center College at Danville, Kentucky. He soon
afterwards came to Oklahoma, was admitted to the bar and began
practice at Blackwell in Kay County, and in the fall of 1902 was
elected county attorney and served one term. After this experience he
was engaged in a general practice until 1908, and then removed to
Oklahoma City, where he was engaged in general practice. During 1911
he was associated for about half of his time with the county
attorney's office of Oklahoma County in the handling of criminal
cases, and this proved a valuable experience as a trail lawyer.
During 1912 Mr. Moss was honored among his associates with the office
of president of the Oklahoma City Bar Association.

In March, 1913, he located at Tulsa, becoming a member of the firm
of Martin, Bush & Moss. In 1914 Mr. Bush withdrew from the firm and
removed to California, since which date the firm has been MARTIN &
MOSS. They are general lawyers, handling a large volume of civil and
criminal litigation, and also represent several corporations. Mr.
Moss is a member of the Tulsa County Bar Association and the Oklahoma
State Bar Association, and politically is a democrat.

He was married March 14, 1903, to Miss Marjorie L. BUCHANAN, who was
born at Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, September 1, 1999

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916)3; 1123, 1124.