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ALFRED W. MOULTON, was born near Columbus, Mississippi, December 27, 1832, among the Choctaw Indians, his father being a missionary in that tribe. When two years old, his father went with the Indians as they were moved to the Choctaw reservation in the Indian Nation. In 1838, his father came to Bloomington, Illinois, a place then of only two hundred inhabitants. He lived there five or six years, then came to Waverly, Morgan county, where he worked on a farm his father had bought in 1848. When twenty-one years of age, he rented land in Sangamon county, and followed farming for himself about three years, then bought one hundred and sixty acres of prairie in Macon county, near Decatur, Illinois, for which he paid $1,600. He broke the prairie and kept it one year, and sold it for $2,600. He then came back to Sangamon county, and rented a farm of two hundred and forty acres of Theo. Curtis for three years, when he moved to Christian county and bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres of raw prairie. He remained there five years, then sold and bought one hundred and sixty acres in Sangamon county, this township; lived on that farm five years, sold out, and bought another farm of one hundred and sixty acres, also in this township. In four years he traded this farm for two hundred and twenty acres, on which he now resides, paying $2,400 difference.