Milton Louis Moore

MOORE

Posted By: Jean Wenke, volunteer
Date: 2/27/2009 at 10:04:58

Milton Louis Moore, only son of Prof. And Mrs. J. E. Moore, was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, January 13, 1899. His elementary education was received in the Fayette and Bonaparte public schools, he having finished the eighth grade at Bonaparte in 1912. The first two years of his high school work were spent in the Fayette High school and the last two in the Spring Valley, Minn., high school, graduating from the latter in 1916. His entire high school course was taken under the administration of his father's superintendency.

With his parents he moved to Minneapolis, Minn., in the fall of 1916, where he entered the University of Minnesota as a student and took three semesters of collegiate work in that institution. In February, 1919 he came to the farm near Bonaparte to help his father carry on farm operations for that crop season. In this, as in all else, he was a diligent, helpful, loyal, cheerful assistant.

Feeling that his country needed his more immediate service, he enlisted and was inducted in Co. 9, S.A.T.C., at Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa, October 12, 1918. He received honorable discharge from this service on Dec. 18, 1918. During this period of training service he was assigned responsible duties, and that he discharged his trust well is attested by the following paragraph taken from a letter written Dec. 10, 1918 to his parents by his Commanding Officer.

“As his Commanding Officer, I am proud of him. He has done his duty well. I, and his comrades, will bid him good bye with deep regret, and wish him every success after he returns home, that spot in every man's heart no other place can fill.”

Home was the dearest spot on earth to Milton and he spent his time there except while in service away at school. In was one of his chief delights to entertain his friends – of whom he had many – in his home. He was an ardent lover of music. While a student in the University of Minnesota, he was a member of the University Symphony Orchestra, also a member of the Military Band at Iowa State College at Ames.
During the summer of 1919, with the counsel of his parents, he practically managed and operated the home farm. Having unqualifiedly chosen agriculture for his vocation, he entered Iowa State College in September to complete his training.

He was taken ill at Ames on January 23, 1920, and after a heroic resistance succumbed to pneumonia January 30. His parents and two sisters were at his bedside.

Milton was a member of the M. E. Church, having united with that church at Fayette in 1912.
Interment was made in the Bonaparte cemetery, a short funeral service being held there Monday afternoon, Feb. 2, following services at the home.

From Dorothy Watson's scrapbook, Bonaparte, Iowa Library