(June 30, 1919-Mar. 21, 1986). Thomas William Moses was born in Benton, Illinois, and graduated from high school in Gary, West Virginia. He received an undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University (1939) and a law degree from Yale University School of Law (1942). After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II (1942-1945), he practiced law in Charleston, West Virginia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The wealthy Murchison family of Dallas noticed him when he litigated a lawsuit against them, and, in 1955, they made him executive assistant of their Investment Management Corporation in Dallas. The Murchisons—majority holders of the Indianapolis Water Company from 1953-1956 and minority holders from 1956-1965—sent Moses to Indianapolis as assistant to the company’s president in 1956. Moses became president later that year.
In 1962, he moved to Minneapolis as president of the Michigan-owned Investors Diversified Services. From 1964 to 1969, he was president of the First Interoceanic Corporation in Minneapolis. Named chairman of the board of in Philadelphia in 1969, Moses arranged for its conversion into a nonprofit society in Indianapolis.
In 1970, Moses became chairman of the board of the Indianapolis Water Company. He promoted its non-utility subsidiaries, notably the Shorewood Corporation, which developed land near the company’s reservoirs (such as current-day ).
Moses gained a reputation for civic activities, including a term as chairman of the local He was also widely regarded as one of the most important influences in bringing the and the to the Hoosier capital.
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