“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


JOHN MOORE,  farmer, Sec. 30;  P.O. Rome; born in St. Lawrence Co., 
Canada, March 16, 1826; removed to the State of New York with his 
parents, when very young, and remained five years; they then removed 
to Ashtabula Co., Ohio.  Mr. Moore came to Sullivan, Jefferson Co., 
Wis., where he began as a farm laborer; after four years, he returned to 
Ashtabula Co., Ohio, and married, Sept. 19, 1850, Miss Luretta Hill, 
who was born in the county; they have ten children living – Hannah, 
Louisa A., Herbert L., Alice A., Emma S., Nancy G., William, Mary F., 
Jasper and Angeline.  Mr. Moore is a Republican, and has been 
Treasurer and Assessor in Sullivan many years.  He settled on the farm 
he now owns of eighty acres in 1866; has on his farm a sorghum-mill 
and lime-kiln.  He made 2,600 gallons of sorghum sirup in 1878, and 
sells from 2,000 to 3,000 bushels of lime per annum.


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