Biography of Aaron D. Moore, page 1004.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Aaron D. Moore, one of the most prominent farmers and stock-raisers of 
Wilmington Township, resides on section 18, where he has a pleasant home and 
200 acres of valuable land.  He makes a specialty of raising fine stock.  
His Durham short-horned cattle are registered in the American Herd Book, 
Chicago; Spanish Merino sheep in the Vermont Merino Sheep Breeders’ 
Association, Middlebury, Vt., of which he is a member; and his hogs in the 
Central Poland-China Record of Indianapolis.  His ram, Burwell, No. 316, is 
a grand son of Bismark, who took the first premium at the Centennial, where 
there were twenty-seven competitors.  He paid $200 for this when a lamb nine 
months old.  It shears twenty-two pounds.  One ewe, No. 76, shears twelve 
pounds of first premium wool, and several shear eighteen pounds.  His cattle 
and hogs are of the choicest grades.  He is the only man save Dr. W. H. 
Madden, of Butler, in Northern Indiana, who has sheep registered in the 
Vermont Spanish Merino Record.  Mr. Moore was born in Canal Fulton, Stark 
Co., Ohio, Jan. 17, 1831.  He was reared and educated in his native town.  
His father was a shoemaker and in limited circumstances, and in his youth 
he began boating on the Ohio Canal in the summer, attending school in the 
winters. He came to De Kalb County in 1854 and settled in the dense woods 
where he now lives, and it was eight years before he saw a light in a 
neighbor’s cabin, and often for weeks he saw no one.  The first log cabin 
he built is still on his farm.  He was a good hunter, and his gun and 
hounds were his main dependence.  For several yeas he paid his taxes with 
hides and furs.  He has cleared 160 acres of his own land, in addition to 
the assistance he has given to others.  One season he walked nine miles 
Monday morning, chopped in the woods all the week and returned home 
Saturday nights. While he was working for his neighbors his wife raised a 
crop of corn at home on land that had never been plowed.  Mr. Moore was 
married in January, 1851, to Rebecca J. Caldwell, of Stark County, Ohio.  
To them have been born nine children, but six of whom are living---Hiram 
M., Margaret A., Ella, A. Alvin, George M. and John R.  A daughter, Jane, 
died at the age of eighteen years, and a son, William, at the age of ten 
years.

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