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David

Moody

Birth: 

1837

IN

Death:

1923

SJ

Work:

lumberman

businessman

Married:

Jeanette B. Wright (1838-1934)

Children:

Nettie (1863-1938), Anna L. (1867-1939)

owned sawmill with his brothers when oil discovered in Moody Gulch (Caldwell Oil Strike 1872); owned flour and woolen mills in SJ with his family

Young p. 107

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