Fletcher Moore

MOORE, GRASLEY

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 20:49:54

The first to enter into mercantile business was the firm of Fletcher Moore and Charles Grasley, who rented a small building just south of the Allison Hotel, and on the 20th of January, 1880, opened for business with a small stock of general merchandise, mostly groceries. Mr. Moore now carries on the business, occupying his own corner block, and doing a thriving trade in groceries and farming machinery.
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He is a young man who has the confidence of the people, born at Belvidere, Illinois. He was engaged as clerk for one year in a dry good store at Harvard, Illinois, coming to Butler county November 1, 1879. His father, Francis Moore, was an early settler of Boone county, Illinois.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 755