William Moffitt

    William Moffitt, County Auditor, was born in Adams Township, this county, January 15, 1833, and is one of eight children, seven of whom lived to maturity and only four of whom are yet living. The parents, David and Frances (Odle) Moffitt, were natives of Ohio, the former being of Irish descent. they were married in Ohio, and in 1831, came to Warren County, where they engaged in farming until Mrs. Moffitt's death in 1871, since when Mr. Moffitt has lived retired in Williamsport.

    William Moffitt, with the exception of two years, has always made Warren County his home. In  1856, he married Mary E. Warner, a daughter of Daniel H. Warner, and in 1859 and 1860, was engaged in farming in Kansas. In July, 1863, he enlisted as a private in Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was elected Second Lieutenant. During their six months term of enlistment they were located in Eastern Tennessee doing guard duty, but in February Mr. Moffitt was discharged, and the winter of 1864 helped recruit Company G, One Hundred and Fiftieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, of which he was commissioned Captain, and their operations were in Virginia, doing guard duty principally between Winchester and Harper's Ferry. Mr. Moffitt was honorably discharged in August, 1865, and has since resided in Williamsport.

    The fall of 1865, he became Deputy County Auditor, and in 1868 was elected Auditor by the Republican Party, and in 1872, was re-elected to this position. He served the four years after the expiration of his term of office as the Deputy of his successor, but in 1880, was again elected Auditor and is now serving in that capacity.

    Mr. Moffitt is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows Fraternities, is a K.of H., and member of the G. A. R. He is a Republican, and he and wife are the parents of four children -Frances (Mrs. Frank Demmary), Clara J. (Mrs. John Hatton), David H. and Anna M.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.