JOHN MOELLER
John Moeller, who resides on section 9, purchased his farm of Nelson Anderson, in February, 1884. He was born in 1842, in Germany, and came to the United States with his parents in 1852. His father, Fred. Moeller, settled in that year in Scott county, Iowa. Fred. Moeller was a carpenter by trade, and built the first brewery in the city of Davenport. He afterwards settled on a farm in that county, where he remained till 1872, when he moved to Atlantic, Cass county. He now keeps a grocery and shoe store in the city of Atlantic. A brother of John Moeller keeps the Commercial House in Atlantic. The subjecct of this sketch came to this county in 1870, and bought a farm near the town of Griswold. He ran(sic) a meat market in Atlantic six years. He was married to Lizzie Binger, a native of Germany, and they have four children... Fred F., Henry, John and Emma.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 572.
