Moore, Joseph

MOORE

Posted By: Joyce hickman (email)
Date: 11/7/2008 at 13:50:19

Joseph Moore

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.246, Valley Twp.)
Joseph Moore, farming, P. O. Hancock, was born in Ireland in 1846; came to America with his parents in 1849, and settled in Newry, Blair Co., Penn. In 1858, he moved with his parents to Lee County, Ill., where they remained two years. of the two years our subject remained in Lee County, he lay twenty-one months with fever and ague. In 1860, he again moved with his parents to Scott County, Iowa, where his parents still live; his mother is seventy-eight years old and his father seventy-nine. When the war broke out, our subject's three brothers enlisted, but Joseph being too young to enlist, remained at home with his parents till he was of age, and then went to farming. In February, 1871, he came to Pottawattamie County, and settled eight and a half miles south of Avoca and built a house eight by ten feet. He lived alone one year, and then was married to Miss Hattie H. Sautelle, who was born in Bangor, Me. Mr. Moore has resided on his farm up to the present time, but now has built a residence in the town of Hancock, and intends to make that place his future home. He has a well-improved farm of 120 acres, besides his town property. He is a Republican and also a member of the I. O. O. F., Valley Lodge, No. 439. They have five daughters. One of Mr. Moore's brothers died in the army; one lives in Davenport, Iowa, and one in Moline, Ill. Mr. Moore has always had to depend upon his own resources, and has made most of his money in raising hogs in Pottawattamie County. He was educated in Scott County, Iowa, in the common schools.