Jack moses biography
Jack moses biography
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Jack Moses
Australian poet
Jack Moses | |
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| Born | John Moses (1861-01-12)12 January 1861 Haymarket, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 10 July 1945(1945-07-10) (aged 84) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Burial place | South Head Cemetery, Sydney |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, elocutionist, travelling salesman |
| Notable work | Nine miles from Gundagai |
| Parent | John Moses |
Jack Moses (12 January 1861 – 10 July 1945)[1] was an Australian outback bush poet who wrote the poem "The dog sat on the tuckerbox" from which the well-known Dog on the Tuckerbox monument and the Nine and Five Mile legend of Gundagai were inspired.[2]
Early life
Jack Moses was born in Haymarket, New South Wales, 'when cows grazed in Hyde Park'.[3] Of Jewish origins, his grandfather, John Moses, arrived as a convict to Hobart on a seven-year sentence.
Eventually, he married an Irish woman named Mary Conolly, before moving to the Colony of New South