NATHANIEL MOORE was born in the County of Down, Ireland, on the 23rd of September, 1816. He was raised on a farm, which business he followed till the time of his marriage. On the 25th of August, 1843, he was married to Miss ELIZA JANE WALLACE. Shortly after he went to housekeeping, and in 1852 emigrated to the United States, landing at Philadelphia on the 18th of April, the same year. From there he went, with his family, to Pittsburg, Pa., where he spent a short time; thence he went to Crawford county, Pa., where he engaged to work on a farm for a Mrs. CARGO for three months at eight dollars per month. He returned to Pittsburg, where he spent nine months in the employ of Leach, McAlpin, & Co., commission merchants, and in the spring of 1853, with his family, emigrated to Scott county, Ill., and settled one mile south of his present residence (a view of which appears elsewhere in this work). He purchased a tract of forty acres, for which he paid six dollars per acre, and remained upon it until the spring of 1860, when he purchased two hundred acres more where he now resides. Mr. MOORE's next purchases were forty, then one hundred and forty acres of as valuable land as is in Scott county. It has some of the best coal-beds underlying it in the state, which have been worked extensively.

No man in the county is deserving of more credit than Mr. MOORE for his untiring energy and perseverance. His family consisted of four children, three of whom died in infancy; he has one living-GEORGE WASHINGTON-who was born on the 20th of November, 1856, and is the pride of his parents.

In politics, Mr. Moore has always been a staunch republican, a firm friend of the Union, and during the late war, no man gave more liberally of his worldly goods than did Mr. Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are both living, and bid fair to enjoy the fruits of their labors. Long may they live, and be a blessing to society.