SEABORN MOORE
The wagon and carriage building establishment of Seaborn Moore, the principal industrial work of the village, was opened by their present owner in 1880, and by ability, skill and strict attention to business, has worked up a large and constantly increasing trade. He manufactures all kinds of vehicles; among others, farm and lumber wagons, Dexter twin spring buggies, etc. Mr. Moore is the inventor and patentee of the Anita iron wagon stake, one of the neatest and best applications of that metal for the purpose, in use, and will entirely supercede the old wooden contrivance, now used.
Seaborn Moore is a native of Wayne county, Indiana, and was born August 10, 1833. His parents, Seaborn and Rachel (Stubbs) Moore were natives of North Carolina. During the war of 1812, Seaborn Moore, Sr., was drafted, but was unable to go. They were married in Ohio, and about 1832 removed to Wayne county, Indiana. Eleven children were born to them, ten of whom are living. In 1839 they removed to Tazewell county, and in the spring of 1846 to Jones county, Iowa. They afterward removed to Dallas county, where both parents afterwards died. The subject of this sketch, in early life, learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. In August, 1862, he enlisted in company K, of the Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Soon after enlisting, he went to Muscatine, Iowa, and thence to Helena, Arkansas. He participated in the engagements at Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Vicksburg and others. In June, 1863, he was taken sick and sent to the hospital, at Memphis, Tennessee, where he remained three months. He then received a thirty days' furlough, at the expiration of which time he went to Davenport, Iowa, and there served the balance of his term. After the war he went to Jones county and soon after took up the wagon maker's trade. He remained there two years, then went to Anamosa, where he remained one year, then removed to Mount Carroll. He resided in the latter place ten years. He was married to Emma Christman, a daughter of Lewis Christman, of Mount Carroll. They have three children--Viola, Hiram and Erastus.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 698-699.
