MOORE, W. S.

MOORE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/12/2019 at 21:34:16

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

MOORE, W. S., manufacturer and wholesale dealer in tinware ; Mr. Moore was born in New York City in November, 1815; came to St. Louis with his parents in January, 1816; lived there until 1832, then went to Springfield, Ill., and made that his home until 1845, then returned to St. Louis; Mr. Moore ran the first two locomotives which were brought to Illinois ; he was engaged for fifteen years in steamboating ; he was also engaged in tin manufacturing, previous to the great fire in St. Louis about thirty years ago; came to Keokuk in 1855; engaged in present business ever since. Mr. Moore makes and sells more tinware than all the other dealers of Keokuk combined. Last year he sold over 38,000 fruit cans.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879