Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Dillon, Moses 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Moses Dillon, lumber, grain and coal merchant, at Sterling, was born in Ohio, 
Sept. 19, 1845. His father, Lloyd Dillon—a native of Maryland—was employed in 
the furnace business at Zanesville, Ohio, where he died, in 1845. His mother, 
nee Margaret A. Culbertson, was a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. Dillon was an 
inmate of his parental home until he was of age, receiving a common-school 
education. From 1857 to 1860 he was a resident of Dixon, Ill. In 1859-60 he 
herded cattle for William Butler at Nelson Station. In 1861 he engaged as 
clerk in the mercantile establishment of D. M. Crawford in Sterling—the first 
boy employed in such capacity in that store—remaining there two and a-half 
years, and thereby receiving a good business education. Then, at the age of 
18, he enlisted in Co. A, 140th Regf. Ill. Vol. Inf, was mustered into the 
military service at Dixon, went with his regiment to Memphis, Tenn., and did 
guard duty. In 1865 he returned home and formed a partnership with Charles 
Smith in the grocery business, under the name of Smith & Dillon, and thus 
continued in the trade for ten years. He sold out his interest in 1875, and 
bought the interest of Joseph Golder, in the grain, coal and lumber business, 
forming a partnership with Mr. Golder's son, under the firm name of Golder & 
Dillon. In this relation they continued until 1880, when Mr. Dillon purchased 
the interest of his partner, since which time he has conducted the business 
alone, with success. His office is on the corner of Third and Spruce Streets, 
and in the rear of his office he has an elevator with a capacity of 60,000 
bushels, which he runs with a gas engine—a curiosity to all the people of the 
county. His lumber and coal yard occupies all of block 43, and his salt and 
drying sheds and barns all of block 42. He has the only planing-mill in 
Sterling, where he does all kinds of wood work. Mr. Dillon is a "Sterling" 
man. Coming when young to the place, he has by diligence and strict integrity 
won a high business and social position. He is the President of the 
Northwestern Fair Association, and is a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the 
A. O. U. W. He is a Republican in his political views, and, with his wife, is 
a member of the Presbyterian Church of Sterling. May 8, 1867, Mr. Dillon 
married Miss Emma J. Golder, daughter of Judge Golder, of Sterling, and they 
have five children, namely: Mary P., Maggie A., Alice E., Joseph G. and Moses 
L.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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