Moor, John

MOOR, WOODWARD

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Date: 11/27/2012 at 09:08:57

1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

UNION TOWNSHIP

Page 703

MOOR, JOHN--P.O. Forest Home. Was born in Sangamon county, Illinois, October 14, 1825; lived there on his father's farm, attending school a portion of the time, till 1843, when, with his father and brother, he came to Poweshiek county, Iowa, in April. The next year, 1844, he made a permanent settlement on his present farm, in section 27. He was married October 14, 1848, to Miss Amelia P. Woodward, and they have eight children: Nicholas (born October 4, 1849), Mary Louisa (born June 12, 1851), Sarah E. (born June 23, 1854), Emma L. (born January 21, 1856), Rosetta (born May 28, 1857), Drusilla (born May 4, 1859), Winfield S. (born February 1, 1861), Harlan G. (born February 13, 1869). The subject of this short sketch has, from the earliest history of the county, been among its foremost men. His intelligence, honesty and generosity have won for him the respect of all. He has been justice of the peace sixteen years, township trustee several terms, member of board of county supervisors during the war, and besides several other positions in the gift of the people he was elected the regular Republican ticket to the most numerous body of the Fifteenth General Assembly of Iowa, in the fall of 1873. He has given his attention to raising stock and farming, till by his industry he has one of the finest farms in the county. The farm includes 280 acres of good land, 200 of which are under excellent cultivation, forty acres pasture, and about forty timber, large and beautiful house, an orchard of over 400 bearing apple trees and forty cherry trees, a good barn, fifty head of neat cattle, several short-horn cows, eight good horses, 180 hogs, good wells and slightly rolling land. Mr. Moor has been a member of the M.E. Church since sixteen years of age.