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History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa
Springfield, Ill: Continental Hist. Co., 1884.

Guthrie County Judicial
Transcribed by Bobbi Pohl

Thomas Moffitt, one of the old settlers of Victory township, was elected to fill this position [county judge] in 1863, and assumed the judicial ermine with the beginning of the year 1864, and served two years. He was born in Ross county, Ohio, August 12, 1801, and is the son of Joshua and Sarah (Ward) Moffitt. He was married in the place of his birth on the 16th of December, 1824, to Miss Elizabeth Day, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Fleury) Day, by whom he had ten children--Albert, died in infancy; Orlando, Adeline, Alonzo, died in 1850; Caroline, Minerva, Angeline, died in 1860; Sarah E. and Myron T. Mr. Moffitt moved to Hancock county, Ohio, in the fall of 1830, where he remained until 1852, when he came to Guthrie county, and in May of that year settled upon section 4, in Victory township. He was held many offices of honor and trust since coming here, and is now living with his sons, Orlando and Myron T., at Moffitt's Grove.