MOBERLY  , a

city of Randolph county, Missouri, U.S.A., in the north central part of the state, about 130 M . E. by N. of Kansas City . Pop . (1890), 8215; (1900), 8012, (923 negroes); (1910), 10,923 . It is served by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the Wabash railways, and is a division headquarters of the latter . The city is regularly laid out on a level prairie site . There are two public parks, a Carnegie library, a commercial college, a Y.M.C.A. building, and a hospital maintained by the Wabash Employees Hospital Association . The most important industrial establishments are the large machine shops (established here in 1872) of the Wdbash railway . Moberly was platted in 1866, was incorporated as a town and became the county-seat in 1868, and in 1873 secured a special city charter, which it surrendered in 1889 for city status under the general statute .