Peter Allen Moses, Class of 1855 (A.B.) and 1858 (A.M.)

Moses, who had been licensed as a local preacher in August 1852 while a student at R-MC, moved to Arkansas sometime after his 1855 graduation and was a minister and educator. He served as President and Professor of Mathematics, Mental and Moral Science at Wallace Institute in Van Buren, Arkansas from 1857-1860. He then opened the Southern Literary Institute at White Sulphur Springs, Arkansas, but the school closed after a year due to the war.

He enlisted as a private in Co. D of the 34th Arkansas Infantry in July 1862. Moses was appointed chaplain of the regiment in August 1862, with some records indicating it was on the 20th and others the 23rd. Moses was one of 9 chaplains who founded the "Church of the Army" in Little Rock in March 1863. He applied for a leave of absence in April 1863 to assist his family as they had "been forced from their home in Crawford County in this state by the Federals and jayhawkers."

Moses returned to Arkansas after the war, and in the 1870 census was a "Minister of the Gospel" living in Illinois Township in Pope County, Arkansas.  He again served as president of Wallace Institute in Van Buren, Arkansas in 1869 and in 1871 became the first president of Quitman College, a Methodist college in Quitman County, Arkansas that was open from 1870-1898, serving as president for three years. Moses was also the county school superintendant in the early 1870s. He was transferred to the Columbia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Oregon in 1874 and continued as a Methodist minister and educator, serving as principal of several schools in Linn County, OR and as pastor for several different congregations. In 1912, he was taking agricultural classes at Oregon Agricultural College, where the college magazine lists his age at 72 although he was actually 84 at the time.  He died April 7, 1919 and is buried in Crystal Lake Cemetery in Corvallis, OR.