Biography
He arrived in Victoria in 04/1862 by way of Panama and San Francisco.
He was the agent of Liebes and Co. of San Francisco.
He opend a trading post at Bella Coola and spent time opening up the grease trails into the interior running pack trains to Williams Creek and Barkerville.
He was appointed as Government Agent for the North Coast and Justice of the Peace.
He accompanied the punitive expedition in the Chicotin War and was afterwards appointed as Indian Agebt and Deputy Collector of Customs (based in Bella Coola) for the Northwest Coast.
In 1867 he left the government and became a fur trader in Bella Bella.
In 1869 he was operating a trading post in the Queen Charlotte Islands.
In 1870 he purchased sealing vessels: the Black Diamond and the Lillie but they were seized in the Bering Sea.
In 1883 he married Hattie Bornstein, daughter of Herman Bornstein of Victoria.
They had a son Alexander.
In 1887 he was the Vice-President of the Jewish Synagogue in Victoria BC. On June 1892 he left his family to investigate a mining property in Washington State and was next heard of, dead, in Denver Colorado in 1896.
Named Features
Moss Street (Victoria BC), Moss Bank (BC), Moss Passage (BC)
References
- Leonoff, Cyril Edel (1978)
- Mallandaine, Edward (1887) Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
