William Moody Mansion At 2618 Broadway St.

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Has anyone ever been into the Moody Mansion located at 2618 Broadway St. in Galveston?

https://www.moodymansion.org/

Their story begins in Virginia, where Col. William Lewis Moody, owning not much more than a law degree from the University of Virginia, ventured west in 1852 seeking opportunity and a comfortable place to settle a family. After visits to Austin, San Antonio and Houston, he decided on Galveston because of its potential as a port and mercantile center.

Col. Moody started the family business in the 1850s through cotton trading, and it was brought into the 20th century by his son, W. L. Moody Jr., who expanded their business with credit lending, banking and the development of a national insurance company. Mary Elizabeth Moody Northen, Col. Moody’s granddaughter and eldest child of W. L. Jr. and Libbie Rice Shearn, ushered the family’s interests into the 1980s, and they endure today in numerous businesses, nonprofits and family trusts still operated by Moody descendants.

In a chaotic Galveston cotton market in the 1860s and 1870s, Col. Moody gained prestige as an honorable and principled businessman who grew to be influential among his peers because of his cool, clear-headed nature.

When W. L. Jr. joined the family operation in 1886, the Moodys had already expanded into banking – first with the opening of Moody Bank and later through a merger with the National Bank of Texas. W. L. Jr. quickly demonstrated his financial genius, and he began to take charge of the wide-ranging Moody enterprises in the 1890s.