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Born 1820
From History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882)
JOHN A. MOORMAN was born Aug. 19, 1820, in Richmond Co., North Carolina- His father, Carlton Moorman, was a native of the same county, and grew to manhood there. In 1819, he married Misi Rebecca Webb, a native of North Orolina, and in April, 1822, oime with his wife and son to Indiana, identifying himself with the pioneer history of Randolph t'county. They located near the present site of Farm'aad, at a time when the region was almost completely a wilderness, and educational and religious privileges limited. The father was possessed of ample means, and gave his children access to nil the sources of instruction then extant in the neighborhood. During the boyhood of his son John, these sources of information were never more than country schools of the crudest order, and the latter is indebted to his own studious mind, more than to schools, fjr a fund of information and a store of knowledge. At the age of sixteen years, the subject, of this sketch accepted a position in the store of Goodrich Brothers, at Winchester. He remained with this firm about
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As printed in History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name John A. Moorman: E. H. Butler (b. 1841) Luther L. Moorm (b. 1844)
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