Isaac, the son of Joseph and Sarah (Grubbs), was born about 1833 in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. He came to Collinsville, Illinois with his parents in about 1844.

 

His father started a blacksmith shop which was located on North Goethe Street and began making cowbells. According to T.A. Moore's Reminiscences, Joseph had sent for his brother James to assist him in making the cowbells and in 1847 the James Moore family left Harrison County, Ohio and came to Collinsville where the two brothers began the cowbell shop.

 

After the death of Joseph in 1852, Isaac took over his father's cowbell factory which prospered mightily and the Civil War when the drovers began making National City Stock yards a thriving place. In 1876 Isaac sold the business to Christian Blum who had come from Germany and previously owned a business which had supplied tin roofs for buildings.

 

Isaac married Julia Caroline Slayback in Collinsville on the 23rd of March in 1854. Julia, who had been born in Illinois in about 1838, was the daughter of Solomon and Elly (House). 

 

Aside from being a blacksmith, Isaac was also a wagon smith, businessman and civic leader; and was the last village president of Collinsville, serving two one-year terms from 1870-1872. He resided at 214 E. Church Street in Collinsville, and died in 1895 and was buried in the Glenwood Cemetery in Collinsville on the 21st of May.

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