Biography of Aaron J. Moore, page 68.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. 
McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

Aaron J. Moore.  Three generations of the Moore family in Wilmington 
Township have been registered stock breeders.  As a family they have some 
of the oldest herds of registered stock in the state, and the value of 
their enterprise is raising the standards of livestock husbandry is 
incalculable.
   Aaron d. Moore, grandfather of the present generation, had his Durham 
Shorthorn cattle, Spanish Merino sheep and Poland China hogs registered in 
the books of the official associations of those breeds.  Aaron Moore was 
born in Stark County, Ohio, January 17, 1831, son of a shoemaker, and he 
grew up in a home of very modest comforts and early had to make his own 
way in the world.  He worked as a boatman on an Ohio canal, and in 1854 
came to DeKalb County and settled in the big woods of Wilmington Township.  
He built his log cabin and used his skill as a hunter to provide meat for 
his family.  It is said that he paid his first taxes with hides and furs.  
Besides clearing a hundred sixty acres of his own he helped other s to 
clear land and was in every sense a valiant pioneer, and had few equals as 
an axe man.  In 1851 he married Rebecca J. Caldwell, of Stark County, Ohio. 
Their children to grow up were Hiram M., Margaret A., Ella, A. Alvin, 
George M. and John R.
   A grandson of this veteran stock breeder is Aaron J. Moore, who makes a 
specialty of Shropshire sheep and Poland China hogs. He was born in 
Wilmington Township November 24, 1896, and is a son of John R. Moore and 
Cora B. (Shanklin) Moore.  John R.  Moore was born on the farm where his 
son, Aaron J., now resides October 30,1869, and died there December 7, 
1918.  He continued the stock breeding enterprise of his father.  His wife 
was born in Defiance County, Ohio, January 3, 1874, and died February 12, 
1919. They had three children: Aaron J., Gladys, who died while in high 
school. And John R. Jr., who is a high school graduate, took normal 
training in the Tri-State College and is a teacher.
   Aaron J. Moore has spent all his life on the home farm.  He attended 
high school two years at Waterloo and he has done much to continue the 
family tradition and profession as a stockman.  He owns eighty acres of 
the old farm and has a herd of forty head of Shropshire sheep, all pure 
bred, the herd being headed by A.J. Moore's Best No. 63.  His big type 
Poland China hogs also contain some of the finest representatives of their 
class.  For several yeas his animals have been exhibited at state and 
county fairs.
   November 18, 1915, Mr. Moore married Estella M. Quaintance.  They have 
two children: Phyllis E, born September 2, 1916, and Aileen, born February 
12, 1918.  Mr. Moore is a member of the Ancient Order of Gleaners and a 
democrat in politics.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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