Larimer County, History of Colorado, BIOS: MOORE, Lewis Clark (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 58-59



LEWIS CLARK MOORE.

	Lewis Clark Moore, president of the First National Bank of Fort 
Collins, an institution of high standing and great moment to the 
community, was born in Findlay, Ohio, January 24. 1866. He acquired his 
education in the public schools of his native state and in the Eastman 
Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He came to Colorado in 
1885, in the nineteenth year of his age, and after living at Idaho 
Springs, for a short time removed to Fort Collins in June, 1887. Soon 
after taking up his abode in the last named city he was appointed clerk 
of the county court and served in that capacity for about eighteen 
months. On the 1st of January, 1889, he accepted the position of 
bookkeeper in the First National Bank and was soon afterward promoted 
to the position of assistant cashier, while subsequently he was 
advanced to the position of cashier of the bank. in which capacity he 
continued to serve for a number of years. He early evinced a keen 
insight into business matters and by the judicious investment of his 
savings he began to accumulate considerable property and to be 
recognized as an important factor in financial circles. He is a 
careful, alert and methodical business man, a good judge of values and 
his progress upward on the ladder of fortune has been rapid and safe. 
He is rated as one of the most conservative men in Fort Collins and 
also as one of the most successful, owing to the soundness of his 
judgment and his keen sagacity in business affairs. Mr. Moore is a 
quiet, unassuming gentleman. and although wedded to his business, is a 
genial companion and is strongly attached to his home and friends.

	On the 6th of July, 1893, Mr. Moore was united in marriage to 
Miss Agnes Ferrier, of Liberty, Nebraska. Mrs. Moore came from Nebraska 
in 1890 and was assistant to the principal of the high school for three 
years prior to her marriage. She is a highly educated lady, cultured 
and refined, and is a leader in educational, club and church work in 
Fort Collins.

	Mr. Moore is a Master Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of the 
Mystic Shrine and has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish 
Rite consistory. He also has membership with the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and with the First 
Presbyterian church of Fort Collins. In politics he is a Jacksonlan 
democrat.

	Among his more important activities may be mentioned his efforts 
in behalf of irrigation. About 1905 he became interested in irrigation 
matters, the storage and conservation of water and its proper 
distribution. He was elected president of the North Poudre Irrigation 
Company in 1909, when that company was in a bankrupt condition, and 
after about nine years of operating the system he turned it over to his 
successor in a very prosperous and safe condition. At the present time 
the system is equal to any of the great irrigation systems in northern 
Colorado. While he was president of that company, Halligan dam and 
reservoir and No. 15 reservoir were built and the company's canals were 
enlarged. Mr. Moore made no personal profit whatever by handling that 
company but added many millions of wealth to the county and state in 
directing and aiding it through its financial troubles. This was 
characteristic of the man. He recognized the value of the enterprise to 
the county if it was wisely controlled and he put forth every effort to 
make it of public benefit. He has always been actuated by devotion to 
the general good as well as by laudable ambition in the attainment of 
individual success and his worth as a man and citizen is widely 
acknowledged.