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Dr. Thomas H. Moss, practicing physician and surgeon at Hartford, was born in Putnam County, Ind., in 1831, and is a son of Israel and Margaret (Butler) Moss, natives of Kentucky, where they were reared and married. About 1828 they went to Putnam County, Ind., where the father died in 1873, aged seventy-four. He was a carpenter and millwright by trade, and a son of William Moss, who was also a native of Kentucky. The mother was a member of the Christian Church, and died about 1845. Thomas H. was reared at home, and during his youth received a good English education. In 1853 he was united in marriage to Miss Zipporah, daughter of Turner and Miranda Woodard, formerly of Kentucky, where Mrs. Moss was born, but then living in Indiana, and now residents of Putnam County, Mo. To this union two children were born, of whom one daughter is living: Mary L., (wife of George Pickinpaugh). In 1854 the Doctor began the study of medicine under Dr. Washington Benton, of Mount Meridan, Ind., with whom he studied two years, and spent one year with Dr. Cross Gregory, at Carpentersville. In 1857 he entered Rush Medical College at Chicago, but soon abandoned the course there on account of the prevalence of small-pox in the city. In 1858 he began to practice his profession, and the same year went to St. Claire, Mo., where he continued to practice until 1862. He then came to Hartford, where he soon established a lucrative practice, and is now considered one of the leading physicians of the place. In 1884 he took a post-graduate course at Rush Medical College, thus completing his medical education. He owns a nice farm of 300 acres in Liberty Township, on Shoal Creek, and is one of the well-to-do and enterprising citizens of the county. During the rebellion he was captain of a company of Missouri State Militia, but was not called to service. In politics he is a Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for Fillmore, in 1856. He is a prominent and long-standing member of the Masonic fraternity and of the A. H. T. A. His wife belongs to the Christian Church.