Alameda County Biographies

HARRY A. MOSHER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Among the strong financial institutions of Oakland is the Central National Bank, and among the 
bankers of prominence in the city is Harry A. Mosher, who as cashier and later as a vice 
president has done much toward securing for his institution the foremost position it now 
occupies. His banking experience extends over twenty years, and he has since August 1, 1908, 
been connected with the institution of which he is now a vice president. A native of Alameda 
county, Mr. Mosher was born in Centerville, July 9, 1871, a son of H. E. and Sarah Jane 
(Warnick) Mosher, who settled in this county during its early history, in 1867, and now resides 
at Niles, California.
	Harry A. Mosher attended in the acquirement of his education the grammar schools at 
Centerville and Niles and the Oakland high school. However, ever since he was twelve years of 
age he has earned his own livelihood. He entered banking circles in 1893 as clerk in the Farmers 
& Merchants Savings Bank, later becoming assistant cashier as his ability became recognized. 
For a number of years he was private secretary to Edson F. Adams but on August 1, 1908, came 
to the Central National Bank of Oakland as assistant cashier. On January 1909, he was elected 
cashier and in January, 1914, was elected a vice president and still holds this position. Careful, 
painstaking and systematic, Mr. Mosher is yet aggressive and progressive, and as he is a student 
of human nature and conditions, seldom, if ever, has made an error in extending credit or making 
investments. The institution of which he is a vice president has greatly prospered through his efforts, 
and he is readily conceded to be one of the most able and best informed men in his line of work in 
the city. Mr. Mosher is also president of the Fifield Steamship Company of San Francisco.
	Mr. Mosher married Miss Ethel Baechtel, a native of California, and they have one 
daughter, Esther A., and one son, Hugh Martin. He is a well known member of the Athenian Club of 
Oakland. While his duties largely confine him to his bank, Mr. Mosher is ever ready to join worthy 
public movements for the extension of trade or betterment of conditions. He has never been active 
along political lines, but fulfills the obligations of citizenship faithfully. He enjoys the esteem and 
respect of his colleagues and the general public, and by his personality has done much toward 
upholding the prestige which his bank enjoys.

Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 141