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He supplemented his common school education with a course at the BrooklynAcademy, near Cleveland and a select school at Medina. In order to pursuehis chosen profession of law he had to accept a clerkship in themerchandizing industry in Cleveland. He remained there until he was readyto be called to the Bar in 1854. Shortly thereafter, he married FrancesB. Sherman.
He began active practise in Toledo with Hon. George R. Haynes, later oneof the Judges of the Common Pleas Court in Toledo, with whom he remaineduntil the outbreak of the Civil War. He received the appointment ofCaptain and Asst. Quartermaster in the volunteer service of the UnitedStates from which he was subsequently transferred to the regular armywith the rank of Captain and promoted to that of Lt.-Colonel ofvolunteers. He was first assigned to duty in Beverly, WV and then toGallipolis, OH, later to the Depot Quartermaster for the City ofCincinnati, where he remained until the end of the war. During the war herendered efficient and valuable service to the Government in thedisbursement of large sums of money and in the distribution of immensesupplies of stores and provisions for the army in the field. Hedischarged his whole duty with marked ability and fidelity.
Once he resigned he renewed his practise in Cincinnati forming anassociation with Hon. Charles T. Sherman, who later became the USDistrict Judge of Cleveland, and Hon. M. H. Tilden, who later became oneof the Judges of the Superior Court of Cincinnati.
Subsequently he formed co-partnerships with Hon. W. M. Bateman, a U.S.District Attorney in Cincinnati, J. William Johnson, Theo. A. Blinn andLipman Levy, under the firm names respectively: Sherman, Tilden andMoulton; Tilden, Moulton and Tilden, the latter a s/o Judge Tilden;Moulton and Johnson; Moulton, Bateman and Johnson; and, lastly, Moulton,Johnson and Levy. He was admitted to the Supreme Court of the US in 1867.He established branch offices for his practise in Washington and NewYork, and while in the latter city, he was suddenly attacked by theillness which caused his unexpected death.
["Moulton Annals", by Henry W. Moulton (Chicago, 1906),pp.97,106,127-136]
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Colonel Moulton Dead.
NEW YORK, January 25.--Charles William Moulton died at 3 o'clockyesterday morning at the Arno House, from apoplexy. Colonel Moulton wasborn in Cuyahoga county, near Cleveland, December 16, 1830. At the timeof his death he was the New York partner of the firm of Sherman, Johnson& Lexy, of Cincinnati, Ohio. His widow is the youngest sister of Generaland Hon. John Sherman. They had four children all of them married andwell established. All of them were with him during the latter part ofhis fatal sickness, except the youngest daughter, the wife of Captain C.H. Rockwell, of the Fifth U. S. Cavalry, who is stationed at Camp Supply,in the Indian Territory. She will arrive this morning. The funeralceremonies will take place from his proper home, at Glendale, Ohio, onThursday, January 26, and the burial will be in Spring Grove cemetery.
[Newark Daily Advocate (OH), 25 January 1888]
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Place of birth not entirely certain. His death notice says he was bornin Cuyahoga County near Cleveland, while "Sherman genealogy" says'Ricefield'. There is no municipality by that name in the state of Ohio,so I presume it to be a misprint for 'Richfield', which is located inSummit County, just across the boundary from Cuyahoga County. Richfieldtoday is one of the suburbs comprising the greater Cleveland area, and itis possible that the author of his death notice made a faulty assumption.
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