Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Canan, Moses H. July 30, 1858 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sharon Russell slmacruss88@comcast.net July 30, 2025, 3:11 pm Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931 Author: Tarring Davis MOSES H. CANAN, of Altoona, is prominent in banking circles of this city and treasurer of the wholesale grocery concern of the Curry-Canan Company. His paternal grandfather, also named Moses H. Canan, was a prominent attorney and judge of Blair County, and bore the distinction of having been the first lawyer admitted to practice before the Blair County Bar. S. Dean Canan, father of him whose name heads this review, was born at Ebensburg, Cambria County, Pa., in 1827 and removed ten years later to Johnstown, Pa., where he engaged in the wholesale grocery business. His death occurred there in 1908 and that of his wife in the same year; she having been Mary Elizabeth (Davis) Canan, a native of Indiana County, Pa. Moses H. Canan was born at Johnstown, July 30, 1858, and in 1873, when he was but fifteen years of age, went into business with his father, from whom he learned the many ramifications of the wholesale grocery business. In 1889, he came to Altoona, where, in 1899, he became a partner in the organization of the Curry-Canan Company, of which he is now treasurer. For the past thirty-eight years he has been a director of the First National Bank, and at the inception of the Central Trust Company, in 1902, he was one of the organizers and the first elected president, a position which he now holds. He is a trustee of the Fairview Cemetery Association and president of the Altoona Hospital Association. He has served as a member of the Board of Education and has given strong support to Red Cross drives and other worthy community projects. Since 1912, Mr. Canan has been a member of the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania State Reformatory Board of the Huntingdon Institution. He is a deacon of the First Presbyterian Church and holds membership in the various Masonic bodies, including the Shrine, the Spruce Creek Rod & Gun Club, Rotary Club, and Altoona Cricket Club. Mr. Canan was united in marriage to Frances A. Custer, of Altoona, and to them have been born five children: Marjorie Stockton, Hilda, Frances, Virginia, and Lawrence, who is a member of the firm of Curry- Canan Company. This file has been created by a form at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb