John Moody (1868 – February 16, 1958) was a U.S. financial analyst and investor. He pioneered the rating of bonds and founded Moody's Investors Service. Moody's Manuals are still issued, carrying on the tradition begun by the seminal Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities and continued by the annual Moody's Analyses of Investments. Moody's was later merged into Dun & Bradstreet, only to again become an independent corporation in October 2000. Moody's status is reflected in Thomas Friedman's 1996 comment that John Moody received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Boston College and was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Pope Pius XI. Moody was the son of William Francis Moody (1834-1919) and Sarah Jane Nichols (1839-1897). He was one of five children, including Jeanette Hope Moody (1871-?), William Francis Moody (1872-1958), Eliot Crofts Moody (1875-?), and Arthur Henry Herbert Moody (1876-?). He was married to Anna Mulford Addison (1877-1965) who was born in Nice, France. His children include UCLA philosopher and medievalist, Ernest Addison Moody (1903-1975) and John Edmund Moody (1900-1926), who died of typhoid fever in Messina, Italy. He is a convert to Catholicism after being raised a self-described Low Church Protestant Episcopalian, then a Broad Church Episcopalian, before he became Catholic.