BIOGRAPHY: Moulton, M. M.
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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   M. M. MOULTON, is a native of sandwich, New Hampshire, where he 
was born January 12, 1832.  In obedience to that instinct natural to most 
young men born in the New England States, gifted with brains and 
honorable ambition, Mr. Moulton joined the vast stream of emigration, 
which for half an century has been flowing unceasingly westward, and 
dropped anchor in Monticello, in the Fall of 1854.  His natural shrewdness 
and foresight, together with the indomitable energy of his nature, made 
him, at once, a marked man in the small, but enterprising and rapidly 
growing community.  He was appointed United States Commissioner in 
1867, was admitted to the Bar in 1870 -- making one of the most efficient 
and capable officers who has	ever held the position.  Since that time he 
has held various responsible positions, most of the time holding the office 
of justice of the peace, and all the time closely identified with the 
educational interest of the town.  Indeed, it is universally conceded that 
Mr. Moulton has been more prominently and actively associated for the 
past twenty years, with every enterprise and interest designed to accelerate 
the growth of the town and promote its permanent prosperity, than any 
other citizen.
    Monticello, in respect to its enterprise, rapidity of growth, and the broad 
and generous spirit of its people, is a typical western town, and as such is 
know throughout the state.  And to no man more that the subject of this 
sketch, is the town indebted for the excellent character it enjoys.  Mr. 
Moulton is yet in the zenith of his manhood, being only forty-three years 
of age.  He has accumulated a fair amount of property, sufficient to 
maintain him in independence, and has a pleasant home, brightened by the 
presence of a genial and cultured wife, and children, such as any man 
might be proud of.  In person, as will be seen by his portrait in another 
place, Mr. Mouton is a large, stout, somewhat corpulent man.  He has a 
full, hearty, rosy face, brown hair, touched with frost, large head, inclined 
to baldness, shrewd gray eyes, an ample chest, and shoulders strong 
enough to bear the burden of life without fainting  by the wayside.  He is 
sociable and affable in manner, hearty and pleasant in his address.  He is 
strictly temperate in all his habits, and the uncompromising foe of the 
liquor traffic.  With ordinary care, and without accident befalls him Mr. 
Moulton has many years of vigorous and useful life yet before him.