. Historical encyclopedia of Illinois. RICHARD PHILLIPS. Phillips was married to his present wife—Maggie Pfiefer.—daughter of John and Eliza-beth (Souer) Pfiefer. In politics he affiliateswith the Republican party, and has served asSchool Director eighteen, years. He is a mem-ber of the Episcopal church. HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY. 753 WILLIAM MOFFATT, retired farmer andstock-breeder. Paw Paw. 111., was burn in theTownship of Wiiitby, County of Ontario. Can-ada, August 24. 1837, son of Joseph and Mary(Harrison) Moffatt, natives of England, whocame to Canada in 1832. In 1861 Joseph Mof-. WILLIA^/^ M
. Historical encyclopedia of Illinois. RICHARD PHILLIPS. Phillips was married to his present wife—Maggie Pfiefer.—daughter of John and Eliza-beth (Souer) Pfiefer. In politics he affiliateswith the Republican party, and has served asSchool Director eighteen, years. He is a mem-ber of the Episcopal church. HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY. 753 WILLIAM MOFFATT, retired farmer andstock-breeder. Paw Paw. 111., was burn in theTownship of Wiiitby, County of Ontario. Can-ada, August 24. 1837, son of Joseph and Mary(Harrison) Moffatt, natives of England, whocame to Canada in 1832. In 1861 Joseph Mof-. WILLIA^/^ MOFFATT. fait started on a trip to his native country,and on June 4th. of that year, the steamship(Canadian) on which he had taken passagewent down in the Straits of Belle Isle, and he,with many others, perished, in the wreck. Wil-liam Moffatt grew to manhood in Canada,where he also received his educational training;came to Ohio in 1870, and to Paw Paw. Ill,, in1873. He purchased a farm at the latter place,where, for more than thirty years, he devotedhis attention to the breeding of and Aberdeen-Angus cattle, Clydes-dale horses, Cotswold sheep and Berkshireswine, as senior member of the partnershipof Moffatt & Brother, his brother Robert Mof-fatt being junior member. Mr, Moffatt wasamong the first to introduce the Cruickshankshort-horn cattle into this country, and wasone of the first breeders of Clydesdale horsesin Illinois. During his connection with thisindustry, he was one of the best-known breed- ers in the United States, and his stock has wonhig
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