Nathan Moore
Nathan Moore was born in Summit County, Ohio, January 30, 1823, and moved, when thirteen years of age, with his father, to Bowling Green, where he remained until the spring of 1856, when he came to Sidney. He at once engaged in the nursery business on the premises on which his house now stands. His flrst planting was about four acres, in a general nursery stock, but he was compelled to increase his acreage from year to year in order to meet the demands of his increasing trade. He finally bought a large tract across the river, and saw his business swell until about one hundred acres were occupied. Besides this amount, he had twenty acres devoted to orchard-tree experimentation, wherein he tested the quality of different varieties of fruits. After a number of years he abandoned the business of growing nursery stock and located east of town, on the Orbison farm, where he already has a large number of acres set out in the different varieties of fruits and flowers. He was married Dec. 24, 1847, to Miss Julia Eliza St. John, of Wood County, Ohio. They have six children, viz., Estella M., Ezra F., Alice C., Milton Q., Albert G., and Charles H.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883