Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Moon, William W. April 20, 1843 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Moon, William W., Newport, born April 20, 1843, in Cold Brook, N.Y., is a son 
of Jefferson Moon, who was a native of Petersburg, Rensselaer county, born 
November 16, 1801.  His father died when he was ten years old, and he being 
the eldest, was obliged to support the family, and so his education was 
necessarily limited.  August 13, 1820, he married Martha Philips.  In 1822 he 
moved to Trenton, Oneida county, and purchased a farm known as the Camp Ground 
Farm, where he resided until 1833.  He then went to Cold Brook, where he spent 
the remainder of his life.  For some time he kept a hotel, was then in the 
distillery business, afterwards in the lumbering trade, and finally in cheese-
box making.  In 1863 he retired from business.  He was a Whig and a 
Republican.  He was justice of peace twenty-five years and justice of sessions 
many years.  By his first wife, who died in 1853, he had eleven children.  His 
second wife, Sophia Nelson, of Newport, died December 8, 1858.  He died 
January 15, 1875.  William W. was reared in Cold Brook and educated in the 
common schools and Fairfield Seminary.  He taught school five years, was agent 
of Cold Brook Union store three years, and then engaged in the lumber trade 
with his brother Samuel three years.  He and his brother then engaged in 
farming and dealing in cattle and horses.  They are now extensive real estate 
owners in Herkimer county.  On the 28th of January, 1866, he married Alice 
McVoy, of Grant, a daughter of Patrick and Deliah (Willoughby) McVoy, the 
former from Ireland, the latter of Newport, N.Y., a daughter of James 
Willoughby.  Mr. and Mrs. Moon have two children, James W., of the firm of 
Forest & Moon, and Flora A.  Mr. Moon is a Republican, and was supervisor five 
years, chairman of the board in 1879, and has been town clerk.  He was one of 
the building committee of the County-House and one of the directors of the 
Poland National Bank.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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