. The biographical record of De Kalb County, Illinois. red at the age of nine-ty-si.\ years, four months and ten da\s. Hehad a brother who lived to be one hundredand four years old. The subject of this sketch was reared inhis native township, received his educationin the old log school-house, attending schoolduring three months in the winter. Thefirst school-house was erected near the pres-ent farm of our subject. Pupils attendedthe school from Mayfield. Sycamore. Kings-ton and Genoa townships, some of thepupils walking three or four miles tothe school and returning each day. attended
. The biographical record of De Kalb County, Illinois. red at the age of nine-ty-si.\ years, four months and ten da\s. Hehad a brother who lived to be one hundredand four years old. The subject of this sketch was reared inhis native township, received his educationin the old log school-house, attending schoolduring three months in the winter. Thefirst school-house was erected near the pres-ent farm of our subject. Pupils attendedthe school from Mayfield. Sycamore. Kings-ton and Genoa townships, some of thepupils walking three or four miles tothe school and returning each day. attended the school from the timehe was six years of age until he wastwenty years old. He worked cju neigh-boring farms every season, rakmg in theharvest fields when cradles were was one of a family of six children, fourof whom are yet living. Clarissa marriedLysander Tupper and lives in Oregon. JohnH. is the subject of this sketch. Henry andJonathan F. live at Charter Grove. When he attained his majority, went to Kansas and took up a claim,. JAMES H. MOORE. THE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 35/ and later returned and on the 3rd of Febru-ary, 1858, at Sycamore, was united in mar-riage with Miss Adeiaine Miller, a native ofNewton Falls. Ohio, who came west in1845 with her parents. After his marriagehe rented his fathers farm, and continuedrenting other farms until the fall of 1S67,when he purchased one hundred and twentyacres where he now resides, together withfive acres of timber in Charter Grove. In1887 his wife died, leaving four is the present city marshal ofHampshire, Illinois. Lillie married HenryBartlett, and they reside near Charles City,Iowa. Alfred is a carpenter residing inGenoa. W^illiam is a farmer of Genoa town-ship. The second marriage of Mr. Moore wasin 1888, when he wedded Mrs. Mary Cra-mer, widow of Nathan Cramer, and adaughter of Clark Henderson, a native ofVermont and a farmer by occupation, whodied at the age of fifty-five years, in Barr)co
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