Clifton H. Moore had a strong desire to invest in farmland and purchased his first 120-acre farm for five dollars per acre in 1846.  By 1851, he was considered a very  large landholder, owning farmland in five states.  As the resident lawyer of DeWitt County, Illinois, C. H. Moore was well respected and had numerous friends, including Abraham Lincoln.  In later years, C. H. Moore and Vespasian Warner formed a law partnership named Moore & Warner.  Together, they practiced law and managed farmland out of the very office building in which Moore & Warner Farm Management is located today.