death_date death_place birth_place imagesize office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end occupation
06 may 1887 halifax , nova scotia yarmouth , nova scotia 150px mla for yarmouth township 02 march 1819 1855 sarah ryerson replace this image male.svg nathan moses
 1859 merchant
nathan moses

nathan moses -lrb- march 2 , 1819 -- may 6 , 1887 -rrb- was a merchant and political figure in nova scotia .
he represented yarmouth township in the nova scotia house of assembly from 1855 to 1859 .
he was born in yarmouth , nova scotia , the son of william frances moses and lydia butler .
moses married sarah ryerson .
moses was a justice of the peace from 1863 to 1887 .
he also served as custos rotulorum for yarmouth from 1873 to 1875 .
with his partner john k. ryerson , he was involved in the trade with the west indies .
moses was also president of the yarmouth marine railway company , a member of the board of governors for the yarmouth seminary and a director of the yarmouth gas light company , the yarmouth steam navigation company and the yarmouth building society .
he died in halifax at the age of 68 .
