SYLVESTER F. MOODY, clerk; P. O. Annaton; was born in 1846, in the town of Oakland, Coles Co., Ill.; was a son of Isaiah and Usilla Moody, who emigrated to Grant Co. in 1846, locating in the town of Smelser, and in 1848 his mother died; in 1850, his father emigrated to California, where he has lived since, leaving his two sons Sylvester and George entirely under the control and protection of their grandparents, Delial and Asenath Kies, both of Smelser, Grant Co., Wis., whose occupation was farming; he lived with his grandparents until 17 years of age, and then enlisted in the 25th W. V. C., Co. I, under Capt. Smalley; served three years; was wounded the 22d day of July, 1864, at the battle of Atlanta; he was in five different battles; he returned to his native home in Grant Co., stopping for a short period in the town of Smelser; then to Boscobel, where he clerked in a store for six months; thence to Fennimore for one year, working on a farm owned by Isaac McDonald; thence to Castle Rock for two years; followed farming when he returned to his birthplace in Illinois, where he resided for two years, and there clerked in a store; he again returned to Grant Co., locating at Fennimore for four years, and, in 1876, came to the town of Clifton, in the village of Annaton, where he has since lived, mining the biggest portion of the time; is President of the Northeastern Level Company, and is now clerking in the post office and store, which is owned by John Woodward, at Annaton; was Constable one term. Politics, Republican.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.