R. Mooney
R. Mooney, merchant, Plain City, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, March 4, 1850, and is the son of Jacob and Rosanna (Winters) Mooney, natives of Ohio, of Irish descent. Our subject was raised on a farm, and followed farming until 1876, when he engaged in his present business in Plain City. He was married in 1872, to Electa Lane, by whom he had two children – Ida and Walter. Mrs. Mooney died in 1876, and, on June 20, 1877, he married Emily Bigelow, a daughter of Dr. D. K. Bigelow, and by her has one child – Otto. Mr. Mooney is a Democrat of the old Jacksonian school. He is a prominent member of the Masonic order, of the Scottish Rite degree. He is a thorough and successful business man, and stands high in the community where he lives.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]