Moore, Jesse Hale – Moore, Thomas Overton
Moore, Jesse Hale
soldier, educator, clergyman, congressman, was born April 22, 1817, in St. Clair county, Ill.
He served in the civil war and was brevetted a brigadier-general. After the war he re-entered the pulpit, and was presiding elder at Decatur. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-first congress; and was re-elected to the forty-second congress.
Moore, John
state legislator, state senator, congressman, was born in 1788, in Berkeley county, Va. From 1825 to 1834 he was a member of the Louisiana state legislature; and also served several years in the state senate. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1841 to 1843, and again from 1851 to 1853. He died in June, 1867, in Louisiana.
Moore, John
Roman catholic bishop, was born June 27, 1835, in Ireland. He was consecrated second bishop of St.
Augustine, Fla., in the pro-cathedral, Charleston, in 1877.
Moore, John Godfrey
founder, was born July 7, 1847, in Steuben, Maine.
In 1880, when the Western Union telegraph Co. had apparently absorbed all its rivals, Messrs.
Evans and Moore entertained the idea of constructing lines connecting the principal cities and of leasing wires to bankers and merchants during business hours and to newspapers at night.
Abundant capital was forthcoming for the purpose, and the projectors had soon stretched wires, connecting the cities of New York, Boston and Washington. Finally, the Western Union Telegraph Co. purchased the lines of the American Union Telegraph Co., and then Mr. Moore organized the Mutual Union Telegraph Co.
Moore, John Weeks
author, was born April 11, 1807, in Andover, N. H.
He was the author of Historical Gatherings Relating to Printers, Printing, and Publishing. He died in 1889.
Moore, Joseph B
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Nov. 3, 1845, in Commerce, Mich. Since 1868 he has practiced law in Lapeer, Mich. For eight years he served as judge of the sixth judicial circuit; was a member of the state senate in 1879; was prosecuting attorney of Lapeer county for two terms; and in 1895 was elected justice of the supreme court.
Moore, Joseph West
author. He is the author of Picturesque Washington; The American Congress; and A History of National Legislation and Political Events.
Moore, Judson L
musician, composer, was born Sept. 12, 1857, in Bethlehem, Ga. He is the author of a number of pieces of Sunday-school and singing class music.
Moore, Laban T
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 13, 1829, in Cabell county, Va. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirtysixth congress; and served as a colonel in the army during the rebenion.
Moore, Littleton Wilde
soldier, jurist, congressman, was born in 1835 in Alabama. He was elected to the constitutional convention of Texas in 1875; was elected district judge in 1876; and remained upon the bench till 1885. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses; and was re-elected to the fiftysecond congress as a democrat.
Moore, Lucas
farmer, public official, was born July 8, 1861, in Washington county, Ky. He is a successful farmer of Lebanon, Ky.; and commissioner of agriculture, labor and statistics for the state of Kentucky.
Moore, Marshal F
governor, was born in New York. He moved to Ohio and was appointed from that state governor of the territory of Washington, residing at Olympia.
Moore, Martin
clergyman, journalist, author, was born April 22, 1790, in Sterling, Mass. He edited the Boston Recorder twenty years, and in 1861-66 was a vice-president of the New England historic-genealogical society. He published a History of Natick; and Life of John Eliot. He died March 12, 1866, in Cambridge, Mass.
Moore, Martin V
author, poet, was born April 12, 1837, in Johnson county, Tenn. His literary work has been confined chiefly to prose writing, and he has done much in the line of editorial work, in miscellanshort stories, sketches, magazine articles, book views, scientific papers, political and historical works, and is the author of several large prose works. His poems eous rehave appeared in Harper's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine, The Atlanta Constitution, and in several standard collections. poems
Moore, Mrs. Ella Maude
poet, She is a successful writer of Thomaston, Maine; and the author of a volume of entitled Songs; and of Sunshine and Shadow, which has attracted favorable notice from the press and public. She is also a constant contributor of poems to the leading newspapers and magazines of the United States; and her poems have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard collections.
Moore, Monta J
lawyer, legislator, was born March 28, 1866, in Cameron, Texas. During 1892-94 he was a member of the state democratic executive committee; in 1892 was elected a member of the house of representatives of the Texas legislature. He was defeated for nomination for congress by Governor George C. Pendleton in 1894; and in 1896 he declined the nomination for congress. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the west, and has a large practice in his native city.
Moore, Napoleon Bonaparte
lawyer, banker, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 7, 1832, in London, Ohio. He was county judge of Page county, Iowa, for several years; and a member of the senate of that state. Since 1888 he has resided in Fort Worth, engaged in law and banking.
Moore, Nathaniel F
college president, author, was born Dec. 25, 1782, in Newtown, L. I. In 1842-49 he was president of Columbia college. He was the author of Ancient Mineralogy; Lectures on Greek Language and Literature; An Introduction to Universal Grammar; and a Historical Sketch of Columbia College.
He died April 7, 1872, in The Highlands of the Hudson.
Moore, Nicholas R
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1803 to 1811, and again from 1813 to 1816. He died in 1816 in Baltimore.
Moore, Orren C
journalist, legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 10, 1839, in New Hampton, N. H. He is a journalist, establishing the Nashua Daily Telegraph in 1869, which he still edits and conducts. He served six terms in the lower branch of the New Hampshire legislature, and one term in the upper branch; was a member of the state tax commission; and chairman of the state railroad commission for three years. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Moore, Oscar F
congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.
Moore, Richard Channing
protestant episcopal bishop, was born Aug. 21, 1762, in New York city. He accepted a call to St. Andrew's, Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y., which he held for twenty-one years.
He received the degree of D. D. from Dartmouth in 1805.
In1808 he was a clerical deputy to the general convention of his church in Baltimore, Md., and was chairman of the committee on additions to its hymnal. In 1809 he accepted the rectorship of St.
Stephen's, New York city, where he remained for five years. He was consecrated bishop of Virginia in 1814. He died Nov. 11, 1841, in New York city.
Moore, Robert
congressman, was born in Washington county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1821.
MOORE, S. McD
soldier, congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1835; and served in the confederate army during the rebellion.
Moore, Samuel
physician, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1819 to 1822. He died Feb. 18, 1861.
Moore, Mrs. Susan Teackle
[SMITH], author, was born in Maryland.
She is a novelist of Brooklyn, and the author of Ryle's Open Gate.
Moore, Sydenham E
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Rutherford county, Tenn. He was judge of the county court of Greene county, Ala., for six years; and for a short time also of the circuit court of that state. He resigned his judgeship, and went to Mexico as captain of a volunteer company. On his return home he was elected brigadier-general of militia. In 1857 he was chosen a member of the thirty-fifth congress; and re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He also took part in the rebellion as a colonel.
Moore, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress. from South Carolina from 1801 to 1813, and again from 1815 to 1817.
Moore, Thomas Overton
governor, was born in North Carolina. He settled in Rapides Parish as a cotton planter; in 1856 was elected to the state senate of Louisiana; and in 1860 was elected governor, serving four years. He died at his home in June, 1876.