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H. S. MOON was born in 1840, in Van Buren county, Mich., and is a son of Peter J. and Harriet Moon. A sketch of his father appears in this work.

The subject of this notice moved to Nebraska in 1879 and settled in Adams county, where he resided a year and then moved to Phelps county and has since lived there. He took a homestead on settling in Phelps and has been engaged in farming since that date. He was reared on a farm and has been identified with farming interests all his life, and now owns one of the best farms in Phelps county and a fine one also in Harlan county.

In 1866 he married Miss Susan, daughter of Thomas Ensign, of Ohio. Three children have been born to this union — Leroy, Arthur and Eugene.

Mr. Moon is an old soldier, having enlisted in the Union army in 1862, entering the Eighty-Ninth Illinois infantry. His first service was in Kentucky, under Gen. Buell. He was in the engagements at Perryville, Stone river, Liberty gap, Tullahoma, Chickamauga and Missionary ridge. He was wounded in the latter engagement by a gunshot in the left arm and hand, and was sent to the hospital, but as soon as he recovered sufficiently to get about he ran away from the hospital and rejoined his command at Kenesaw, Ga., and participated in the battles around Atlanta. He was also with Gen. Thomas at the engagements at Franklin and Nashville, in the former of which he saw the distinguished Confederate General, Pat Cleburne, fall mortally wounded. He was in the memorable retreat from Pulaski to Nashville, where Thomas made his stubborn resistance to Hood, winning the battle of Nashville. Mr. Moon was mustered out of the service soon after this, the term of his enlistment having expired. He carries with him, as mementoes of his services in behalf of the Union, two scars made by the enemy’s guns. In the quiet, peaceful battle for existence he has been equally as successful as in those for the honor of his country’s flag.