Biography of Moses Brandon, page 848.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Moses Brandon is a native of Stark County, Ohio, born Oct. 25, 1824, the 
youngest of ten children of James and Sarah (Campbell) Brandon, natives of 
Virginia.  His father died in Stark County, and the mother afterward moved 
with her family to Columbiana County, where she died.  Moses Brandon was 
engaged in contracting and manufacturing brick in Ohio.  In 1840 he bought 
130 acres of land in De Kalb County, and in 1856 came to the county and 
began clearing the timber and cultivating it.  He has erected good buildings 
and cleared ninety acres.  For many years he and his brother Alexander lived 
together and kept bachelor’s hall, but since the death of his brother in the 
summer of 1875, he has hired a family to keep house for him.  He has been a 
successful farmer, and has accumulated a good property.  In addition to his 
farm he owns 202 acres of land in Stark County, Ohio.

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