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William Moffett
William Moffett, ticket receiver for the Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg Railroad Company and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company, at Richmond, Ind., was born in Richmond in 1845. His grandfather, William Moffett, with four brothers, James, Adam, Hugh and John, emigrated from Scotland prior to the Revolutionary war. William settled in North Carolina. He was a soldier in the war for independence and died while in defense of his adopted country, leaving three children — John, Mary and Thomas. The latter was born in Virginia and there married Mary Brocon, and in 1810 immigrated to Indiana Territory and settled in Wayne, now Union, County, near Abington. He subsequently moved to Rushville, Rush County, where he died. Of his nine children — Catherine, Martha, William, Julia, Maria, Wesley, Mary, Gardner and Jane — but one, Mrs. Cheesman, resides in Richmond.
William was but a child when his father came to Indiana. He was reared to pioneer farm life, but took up the study of medicine, completed his course and practiced about five years in Richmond, when he died. Of his children, William is the only one living. He acquired a good business education and when eighteen years of age obtained a clerkship in one of the Pan-Handle Railroad offices in Richmond. He has proved to be reliable and diligent and has since that time been employed by thecompany in different capacities. He was for several years mileage clerk, and June 1, 1883, was appointed ticket receiver. He has been a member of Whitewater Lodge, No. 24, I. O. O. F., several years and has held diiferent offices in his lodge.
Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2