Dr. A.C. Moore

MOORER

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 7/7/2014 at 11:34:22

Dr. A.C.Moore

One of the pleasant and uplifting memories of those who have lived in Davenport for the past decade will be active and virile and scholarly pastor of the Edwards Congregational Church, who labors here ended some eighteen months ago when he was stricken by the illness from which release came to him last night. Dr. Moore came to Davenport in 1903. it was at once realized that a new force had been added to the ministerial circle of Davenport. Dr. Moore lived in the world all the time, and not apart from it. He dealt with public questions from the pulpit, making short pulpit editorials a prelude to his Sunday evening sermons and in single sermons and in series of addresses taking up questions that covered the range of good citizenship, right living, the personal and Christian life. The kindergartens, the playgrounds, all the movements that were for the general good, had all his strength behind them. His summers were largely devoted to the Chataquas?. Withal, his pastoral work was never neglected, and it was reluctantly, and not until his illness had lasted a year, that the church allowed the pastoral relation to be severed.
Dr. Moore's connection with masonry should not go unmentioned. At the gatherings of the craft there was no more popular speaker, for his ideals were high as his methods were practical. He was an all-square man. The real sorrow came when he was stricken, and it became plain that his life's work was finished. Now that he answered the call that comes to all, his friends in every part of the city will pause to express their gratitude that he walked by their side for a season.

Highlights from page 14 the same edition, same day:

Dr. Moore passed away at 11:15 o'clock Tuesday night at the family home 637 E. 15th from cerebral apoplexy due to weakening of blood vessels caused by sunstroke.

He was born at Sheddon, Ontario February 16,1860 the son of William Moore of Irish ancestry and Susan Moore of English descent. He married Dec. 19,1882 to Carrie, the daughter of Rev. O.G. and Clarissa Callmore. The had two children, Frances Evelyn born June 6,1884 in Canada. She drowned June 4,1903 in Chicago. and son Charles Herbert. He also has two brothers, George E. Moore of Cordova, Tennessee and L.C.Moore of Canada. His niece, B.H.Cheney of Winthrop, Iowa helped nurse him through his sickness.

Source: Davenport Democrat, Wednesday, 18 January 1911. p. 4.

Notes: Buried at Oakdale Cemetery lot 8,bk/17 Davenport, Iowa. His wife Carrie is also buried there.