Biographies:  Chester D. MOON, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Chester D. MOON, Secretary of the Northwestern Lumber Company, and the son of
Delos R. Moon, Sr., and Sallie (Gilman) Moon, was born in Eau Claire, July 9,
1879.  His father, who was one of the early bankers and lumbermen of this 
city, was a native of Chenango county, New York.  His mother, Sallie Gilman,
was born in Ohio, was a daughter of John L. and Cornelia (Baker) Gilman, 
natives of Vermont and New York respectively, and descended from English and
Scotch ancestry.  Delos R. Moon (sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this 
volume), father of Chester D., came to Eau Claire in 1857 and engaged in the 
banking business with Hall Brothers, of Aurora, Ill.  In the early Sixties,
associated with Gilbert E. Porter, he engaged in the lumber business at 
Porter's Mills, this county, under the firm name of Porter & Moon, and from 
this partnership eventually sprang the Northwestern Lumber Company, with 
which he was connected until his death, November 4, 1898, at the age of 63 
years.  He left a family of seven children as follows:  Lawrence G.; Frank,
who is now deceased; Angeline, wife of J. G. Dudley; Sumner G.; Chester D.;
Pauline, wife of Otto F. Haueisen and Delos R.

Chester D. grew to manhood in Eau Claire, receiving his primary education in
the public schools, after which he attended Shattuck School, at Faribault, 
Minn., and Phillips' Academy, at Andover, Mass., where he prepared for Yale.
Returning to Eau Claire from Andover, he entered the lumber yards of the
Northwestern Lumber Company in 1896 as a common laborer, from which position
he worked his way to shipping clerk; from that he was advanced to work in
the office and later was made manager of mills at Eau Claire, remaining in
that capacity until 1907, since which time he has been secretary and 
purchasing agent of the company.  He has filled the office of vice president
of the Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railway since 1903.  He is a stockholder
in the Union National and Union Savings Bank, of Eau Claire, and a stock-
holder in the Union Mortgage Loan Company.

On May 22, 1902, Mr. Moon married Miss Edith Bucklin, daughter of Charles W.
and Fannie (Stanley) Bucklin, of New York City, and they are the parents of
two children, Marjorie and Bucklin R. Moon.  Mr. Moon is a member of Christ
Episcopal Church, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is a man 
whom every one esteems for his manliness and goodness of heart.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 798, 799.