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John Moser was born in 1832 in Germany. He was brought to the U. S. in boyhood and for several years lived in Canada.
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Cotton Exchange Building at Galveston, Texas
JOHN MOSER
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After moving to the United States, he began architectural practice in Ohio in 1868, later in 1877 worked at Anniston, Alabama, for a time, and in a subsequent period designed certain buildings at Atlanta, Georgia. Also ascribed to Mr. Moser is the Cotton Exchange Building at Galveston, Texas.
In 1890 he was appointed Supervising Architect of the U. S. Treasury Department (succeeding M. F. Bell), and moved to Washington. While serving in that office he approved plans made in the Department for the proposed Federal Building at Buffalo, N. Y. and his act in doing so despite wide criticism of the plans, was a contributing cause for the preparation of the Tarsney Bill, which was passed by Congress later in 1893. This controversial Bill authorized the Secretary of the Treasury, at his discretion, to call for com¬petitive plans from architects in private practice for the erection of public buildings in the U. S.
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