Albert Ruel Moulton was born around 1833 in York, Maine, to John Moulton and Olive Grant. His father was a farmer who owned $4,000 of real estate in 1850. Moulton grew up and attended school in York, and by 1860, he was working as a farmer. He enlisted in the Union army on January 4, 1864, and mustered in as a private in Company K of the 1^st Maine Cavalry later that day. The regiment took part in General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign during the spring of 1864. Moulton mustered out in Petersburg, Virginia, on August 1, 1865. Moulton returned to York after the war, and by 1870, he owned $3,500 of real estate and $800 of personal property. He helped care for his elderly mother until her death in 1879. He married Susan L. Hill in York on April 2, 1874, and they had at least two children: John, born around 1874; and Mary, born around 1882. Susan died sometime in the late 1800s, and Moulton passed away from “Exhaustion from malignant disease of [the] Stomach” on May 17, 1908.

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