282 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY eighteen feet. He split the clapboards for his house and furnished it in primitive style, hut their little home was a happy one and the earnest endeavor that was there put forth enabled him to prosper in his farming operations, so that after a brief time he was able to add forty acres to his original purchase. He has since bought land as opportunity has offered and his financial resources have permitted until he is now the owner of nearly four hundred acres of rich and arable land, from which he derives a gratifying annual income. He also owns a good home in Brazil, where he now resides and other city property, all of which he has accomplished through his own efforts and the assistance of his estimable wife, who has indeed been a helpmate to him. In 1879 he erected a good modern dwell- ing on his farm, doing all the carpenter work himself, his wife helping him put on the cornice hoards. They have lived a life of industry, care- fully directed by intelligent judgment, and as a result, have attained a gratifying measure of prosperity. Unto this worthy couple have been born seven children: Josephine Alice, the wife of George Morris; Lucy E., the wife of Herbert Wolf; Mary E., the wife of Melvin Houk; Austin M.; Oliver, who died in infancy; Myrtle C., and James C. Mr. Winn is a member of the Brazil Lodge No. 264, A. F. & A. M. and is loyal to the teachings and tenets of the craft. He votes with the Democratic party, hut has never sought nor desired office, preferring to concentrate his time and attention upon his business affairs, which creditably directed, have brought him a gratifying measure of success, so that he is now enabled to live in well earned ease, his home being supplied with all of the comforts and some of the luxuries which go to make life worth living. WILLIAM HENRY MOYER.—The name of William H. Moyer is prominently associated with the milling interests of Clay county. It was in 1900 that he sold his farm and bought from F. C. Watts the flour- ing mill which he conducted about one year, and then in partnership with John Willen purchased a larger grist mill there and operated it for two years. Selling his interest in the mill at the close of that period he in August, 1903, became the owner of his present valuable mill at Cory, purchasing the property from A. R. Gruber. Mr. Moyer was born in Owen county, Indiana, September 16, 1863, a son of John and Mary (Baumgartner) Moyer. The mother was born in Germany, but came with her parents to the United States and to Ohio in 1832, and there gave her hand in marriage to John Moyer, a native son of Pennsylvania and a farmer and weaver of blankets. They were married in the spring of 1862, and coming to Indiana ‘resided in Owen county for a number of years, the husband and father dying there in 1868 The widow then moved to another part of the county, and five years afterward to the northern part of Clay county, where she remained for four years, and has since lived with her children, her home having been with her son William H. until 1900, since which time she has been with a daughter. William H. was the only child of John and Mary (Banmgartner) Moyer, but the parents had both been previously married, the mother first wedding a Mr. Halt, by whom she had six children, and the father had four sons and a daughter by his first marriage. Until he was sixteen years of age William Henry Moyer attended the district schools of his home neighborhood, and leaving the school