Peter Monroe Moore

MOORE, ADAMS, ROWE

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Date: 11/30/2010 at 06:53:19

P. M. Moore was born in Muskingum Co., Ohio, on the 13th day of October 1841. In September, 1857, he moved with his father to Point Bluff, Wisconsin, where he finished his education in Bronson Academy. For three years he taught in the academy and one year in the public school of Mauston, besides several terms in district schools. His health failed so he was obliged to give up teaching. He joined a party made up to go to the gold mines of Idaho. He crossed the plains and mountains in the summer of 1863 and back to the mines on the headwaters of the Missouri, and remained in Virginia City sixteen months, mining most of the time. In the fall of 1864 he came home by way of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers with a company of men who built flat boats on the banks of the river--near where Livingston now is--on the North Pacific railway. August 19th, 1865, he married the eldest daughter of Daniel Rowe, of Watworth county, Wis. In the spring of 1866 he moved to Clay County, Iowa, and settled at Gillett's Grove, where he now lives. He served one term as county auditor, two terms as surveyor and was the first treasurer of Lincoln township and the first of Gillett's Grove township. He built a sawmill on the river that manufactured all the native timber of the township. He has been farming and stock-raising during his entire residence here. The summers of 1886 and 1887 he took grading contracts on the Chicago & Northwestern in Nebraska and Wyoming and Manitoba in Montana. His children are Arthur R. and Minnie L. Their mother died in the spring of 1873. He married again, in 1878, Mrs. Lizzie F. Adams, the eldest daughter of W. G. W. Sawyer, of Decorah, Iowa. Mr. Moore is one of Clay county's most successful farmers and prosperous business men. He is connected with the Farmers' Alliance; was one of the founders of the Spencer Congregational Church; an active and enthusiastic worker in the Sunday schools of the county; a fervent and energetic laborer in the cause of temperance and is prominently identified with many other important and prominent organizations of a public and social character.

Source: A History of Clay County, Iowa, by W. C. Gilbreath, 1889, p. 166.

Interment in Rose Hill cemetery
 

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