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Moses Aaron DuMass Civil War veteran and temperance pioneer
Moses Aaron DuMass born May 28 1836 in Sterling came from a Lincoln era abolitionist family. He served with the 44th New York Infantry in the Civil War, was wounded at Hanover Court House, saved by a self treated leg amputation, and later returned to Hannibal as a successful carpenter and display of early Hannibal enterprises. He supported temperance and the Prohibition Party, serving on Oswego County Committee and as Hannibal tax collector. He died September 19 1906 and rests in Hannibal Village Cemetery.
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Moses Aaron DuMass
DuMas
DeMass
Sterling
England
Pierre
Peter) DuMass
Moses
America
Marquis de LaFayette
France
Jasper DuMass
Hannibal
Hillsdale
Mich
44Th
New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Hall's Hill
Old Point Comfort
Yorktown
Hanover Courthouse
Yorktown Hospital
Portsmouth Grove
R.I
Hannibal Enterprises
Prohibition Party
Oswego
Orlo Steele
Treasury Department
3Rd St
Samuel Freeman
Jacob Jacobs