Mose(s) Humphrey was a printer at the "New York Sun" and member of Fire Company 40. A parishioner of St. Andrew's Church, he inspired an urban folklore character of Big Mose. He was said to have an eight-feet height and hands as big as Virginia hams, able to lift trolley cars over his head and rescue babies inside a stovepipe hat. The character of Mose first appeared on Broadway in Benjamin A. Baker's "A Glance at New York", in 1848. Wikipedia
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