Barton County, Missouri Biographies-Moses ISENHOWER

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 908, 909

Moses Isenhower is one of Barton County's most successful farmers and 
stockmen.  He was born in Cocke County, Tenn., in 1823, and is a son of
Martin and Catherine (Null) Isenhower, who were born in North Carolina, 
and were of German and Swiss descent, respectively.  Their parents
emigrated to America before the Revolutionary War, the paternal grand-
father, George Isenhower, serving as a private throughout that struggle,
and was present when Cornwallis surrendered.  Adam Null also served in
that war.  Martin Isenhower was born in 1776, and died in 1876, at the
age of 100 years.  His wife was born in 1774, and died in 1874, making
her 100 years of age also at the time of her death.  They lived together
as husband and wife for seventy-nine years, and were the parents of
eleven children, ten of whom lived to be grown, and four are living at
the present time: George, who resides in Owensbury, Ind., and is a 
farmer and Methodist minister, and is seventy-two years of age; Moses,
the subject of this sketch; David, who was born in 1825, and lives in
Cocke County, Tenn., engaged in merchandising; and Simon, who also 
resides in Cocke County, Tenn., and resides on the farm and in the house
in which he was born in 1830.  Here his father settled in 1820, the old
homestead consisting of about 500 acres.  The members of the family who
are dead are: Elizabeth, who died in Indiana in 1888, at the age of
seventy-five years; John, who died in Benton County, Mo.; Coonrod, who
died in Cocke County, Tenn.; and Noah, who died in Boone County, Ind.
Moses Isenhower began working for himself at the age of twenty-one years,
after farming on his own land in Tennessee for eight years, he sold his
farm and moved to Indiana, purchasing a partially improved farm in
Boone County.  At the end of four years he moved to Fannin County, Texas,
where he bought 260 acres of land, which he was engaged in tilling for 
four years, then sold out and bought a farm of 320 acres in Bosque
County, Texas, on which he resided eight years.  During his residence 
here he served two terms of two years each as county judge of Bosque
County, and here he remained during the late war.  He wa detailed by the
governor of Texas to run a tan-yard, and was the only man who had a permit in the State.  After the war he came to Barton County, Mo., and bought
320 acres of land at six dollars per acre, besides eighty acres of
timberland.  His farm is now worth thirty dollars per acre, and only a 
few years since he refused forty dollars per acre.  He also owns some 
lots in Zodiac, a the Zodiac Springs.  He was married in May, 1844, to
Miss Catherine Bird, and by her became the father of fourteen children,
seven of whom are living: Simeon, who is judge of Barton County, Elizabeth,
wife of James Winters, of Springdale, Washington County, Ark.; D. F., who
is a farmer of Barton County; Ellena, wife of James Winkle, a farmer of
Stone County, Mo.; Rosetta, wife of Samuel Wooldridge, a farmer of the
county; Mary, wife of Jacob Dresler, also a farmer of the county; and
Charlotte, wife of Walter Masters, teacher and farmer, of Vernon County,
Mo.  Mr. and Mrs. Isenhower are members of the Lutheran Church, and are now
residing on a farm of eighty acres near Milford, where Mr. Isenhower gives
a great deal of his attention to raising carp, a large pond of six acres
being stocked with these fish.  Out of a small pond he has caught and sold.
in the last three years, over $200 worth of fish.  He has only been in
the business about five years, but has now 10,000 or 12,000 carp.  He 
contemplates making more ponds, amounting in all to about ten acres. On
his farm is valuable building stone and mineral deposits.

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