Alfred Huger Moses (1840–1918) was an American banker and investor who founded the city of Sheffield, Alabama.
[1] In 1860, he graduated from the College of Charleston and moved to Montgomery, Alabama where he apprenticed in a local law office.
[1] In 1891, the venture and the local Moses-founded bank failed after the price of pig iron plummeted and the local supply of iron was found to be inflated causing the railroads to pull out from completing the links from Sheffield to the rail network.
[1] After the Panic of 1893,[2] the blast furnaces were closed, the city depopulated, and the Moses family moved to Saint Louis, Missouri.
[1] His daughter, Adeline Moses, married German-born Carl M. Loeb, then working for the local office of German metal trader Metallgesellschaft AG and would later serve as the president of the American Metal Company and founder of the investment firm Carl M. Loeb & Co.[1] Moses was buried in Montgomery, Alabama.