| Summary: | Alfred Huger Moses was responsible for the establishment of Sheffield, Alabama. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he moved to Alabama after serving in the Confederate Army where he achieved the rank of Captain.
HIs wife, Katherine, five children, and brother moved to the area with him.
He hoped to create an industrial mecca much as Sheffield, England had.
He was briefly part of a land and iron boom in the area but was left almost penniless during the 1890s when pig iron prices were falling and banks were failing.
He was the first mayor of Sheffield, Alabama.
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