John Moses (1825–1898) was an Illinois judge, politician, banker and historian.

His magnum opus was Illinois, Historical and Statistical, published in 1892, which weighs in at more than 1,300 pages and took its author eleven years to complete.

[2] He bought out the failed People's National Bank of Winchester in 1875, operating under the name "John Moses & Co.", although he was the sole member of the firm until 1876.

[5] In the 1880s, Moses took up the work of Illinois history, authoring or coauthoring at least four books on the subject.

[1] Moses died in Chicago on July 3, 1898; his body was returned to Winchester for burial.