John Henry MOULTON
Biography

John Henry Moulton, the second son of Dan. A. and Adaline Moulton, was born January 23, 1843, in Brunswick, Me dina County, Ohio. Like other children brought up on a farm, he attended the district school two or three miles away.

When twelve years of age he left home for Mansfield, Ohio, where he clerked in the dry-goods store of Sturgis and Wood.

He began at the bottom and worked his way up, becoming the confidential clerk of his employers, until the Civil War, when he joined his brother, Colonel C. W. Moulton in Beverly, West Virginia, where he was put in charge of the overland transportation of supplies.

A year later he was stationed at Gallipolis, Ohio, in the same department, and subsequently in Cincinnati. Ohio.

For some eight months during the war he was managing editor of the Ohio State Journal at Columbus, Ohio.

In the fall of 1865 he went to Ironton, Ohio, and became connected with the Sheridan Mining Company, as Secretary and Treasurer, in which business he remained nine years.

In 1874 he became a member of the firm H. Campbell- & Sons, and has since taken an active part in the business. He was one of the organizers of the Crescent Iron Works of Pomeroy, Ohio.

He became president of the Tyler Hoe and Tool Works of Ironton, and also a director in the First National Bank of that city. He was also a member of the firm of Moulton and Wigh, who were engaged in the Aldine Fruit Process, which in the proper season employed many hands.

Mr. Moulton owned large interests in Chicago, Pueblo, Montana, and Boise City, Idaho.

August 12, 1869 he married Maria E., daughter of Hiram Campbell of Ironton, Ohio. Their living children are: Wal lace, John Henry, Carl Woodrow, Elizabeth Adaline, Frederic, and Dan Alonzo.

Mr. Moulton was a fine type of a self-made man, having obtained for himself an education, a fortune and a good name. He possesses strength of character, to help him through difficulties, and also a keen sense of the ludicrous that has lighted many a dark moment of his life. He is both generous and just, possessing those qualities which accompany native gentility.

As a business man and citizen he occupies a high and influential position. He is greatly beloved for his kind and sympathetic nature, as well as for his integrity, for every one knows that his word is as good as his bond.

Mr. Moulton is a descendant of Robert, of the ninth generation.


Title Moulton Annals
Author Henry William Moulton
Editor Claribel Moulton
Publisher Edward A. Claypool, 1906




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