WI BIO - Dane Co - MOULTON, Hiram N.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol I, pp 258-259

Hiram N. MOULTON, a well known citizen of the city of Madison [Dane County], 
WI, holds the position of State Carpenter, having been appointed to this 
office by Governor PECK for the past two years. He had held several 
important positions in the city prior to this, having been Mayor for one term 
in 1885, and Alderman of the 3rd and 4th Wards for several years. He also 
has been a local leader, and is now one of the prominent residents of the 
place; has hosts of friends, being the kind of person who knows not only how 
to make, but also to keep them. He has always taken an active interest in 
school, being a member of the Board several years, and performs his part in 
all that concerns the advancement of the place.

Hiram N. MOULTON came to Madison, WI, in 1854, and since that time has been 
closely connected with building interests here, having been the contractor 
for very many of the public and also the private buildings of the city. He 
had the carpenter contract for the north wing of the State capitol, and has 
built many of the stately and beautiful homes of this city. In his business 
enterprises he has shown much good judgment, has been eminently successful, 
and has made money. At one time he owned a good farm in Burke Township [Dane 
County, WI], residing there nine years, at least his family did, as he did 
business in the city, but now his residence is a beautiful one at the corner 
of Jenifer and Spaight Streets, overlooking lake Monona, where he has been 
located for the past nine years.

Hiram N. MOULTON was born in East Hartford [Hartford County], Connecticut, 14 
August 1818, and was reared and educated there, learning his trade in East 
Hartford, doing business on his own account before coming to Madison. His 
ancestry was good, of New England parentage. His father, Spencer MOULTON, 
was born in New Jersey, and spent the most of his active life in Hartford 
[Hartford County, CT] as a paper maker, but died in West Springfield [Hampden 
County], Massachusetts, at the age of sixty-eight years.

The mother of our subject survived him [Spencer MOULTON] two years, dying at 
the same place and at about the same age. Her maiden name was Chloa 
WILLISTON, and her birth occurred near the same place where she died in West 
Springfield [Hampden County, MA]. Formerly she had been an Episcopal 
Methodist, but in later years embraced the Wesleyan Methodist faith, as did 
her husband.

Hiram N. MOULTON is one of twelve children, being the eldest, and two sons 
and two daughters are deceased, and three sons and five daughters are yet 
living, averaging over sixty years of age. One brother, Abertas [Albertus?], 
is a resident of Oakdale [Stanislaus County], California; another lives in 
Faulkton [Faulk County], South Dakota, a farmer there. The five sisters are 
all married and scattered over the country, in Iowa, New Jersey, and three in 
Massachusetts.

Hiram N. MOULTON was married in Madison [Dane County], Wisconsin, with Mrs. 
Ellen COOK, a native of Lyndon [Caledonia County], Vermont. She was born and 
educated there, came West a young woman with her parents in the early 1850's, 
and has since her marriage been a true and trusty helpmate to her husband. 
She is a woman of many charms of character, and has a host of friends in the 
city. Her kindness [p 259] and generosity are well known. She is the 
cheerful, happy mother of two children: Nellie, the wife of Charles ROBBINS, 
now living in the city of Madison [WI], a bookkeeper for the Western agency 
for steel plows; and Fred N., a mechanic. Mrs. MOULTON was the daughter of 
Daniel and Mehetible (CASS) BOWMAN, who now are both deceased, having passed 
away some dozen years since in advanced age. They were natives of Vermont, 
spending some time of their latter years in Massachusetts, before their 
removal to Madison.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly