Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Moore, Frank H. 1854 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Among the progressive men of Colorado who have helped to develop her

resources and build up her industries, her educational and benevolent agencies

and her social life, Frank H. Moore is worthy of more than a passing notice. 

For forty-four years he has lived in the state, about half of the time in

Montrose county, and has expended the energies of almost the whole of his life

so far in the activities which engage her people.  He was born in 1854 in

Arkansas, the son of P.D. and Mary A. (Steele) Moore, the father a native of

Tennessee and the mother of Missouri.  His father moved from his native state to

Missouri when he was a young man and carried on farming and trading.  After a

residence of some years in that state he moved his family to the vicinity of

Little Rock, Arkansas, where he remained until 1859, when they came to Colorado

during the Pike’s Peak excitement, and located on Cherry creek on a part of the

land which the city of Denver now covers.  Here he remained until 1865 engaged

in farming, then moved to Pueblo county and later took up his residence near

Colorado Springs where he was occupied in farming and raising stock until 1881.

 In that year he moved to Montrose county, then a part of Gunnison county, and

there he ended his days in September, 1898, at the age of sixty-eight.  He was

in all respects a progressive man, eager for the growth and development of the

community in which he lived, and ever willing to give time and attention to this

end.  He took great pride in his farming operations and conducted them on a high

plane of intelligence and skill.  He also had the first three fish ponds in the

county stocked with trout and carp, being at the time the only man in the county

who gave attention to interests of that kind.  He was a Democrat in politics and

was twice elected county commissioner of Pueblo county and twice to the same

office in Montrose county.  His father was Davis Moore, a life-long resident and

a prosperous farmer of Tennessee.  P. D. Moore was a soldier in the Mexican war

and was taken a prisoner twice during that contest.  His wife, mother of Frank,

was the daughter of Matthew W. Steele, of Missouri, where she was married.  He

came to Colorado in 1859 and lived the rest of his days at Denver and Pueblo,

dying at the latter place.  Mrs. Moore died in 1899, aged sixty-six, leaving

five children, Frank H. being the second.  At the age of four he came with his

parents to Colorado, and moved to Montrose county at the same time they did.  He

took up land by pre-emption on Uncompahgre river, five and one-half miles south

of Montrose, on which he lived about fourteen years, residing in the same

vicinity until November, 1902, when he came to live at his present home on the

Big Cimarron, where he is busily engaged in raising Shorthorn cattle and general

farming.  He is a Democrat in politics and has filled a number of local offices.

 In 1876 he was married to Miss Ida B. Cropper, a native of Missouri, daughter

of L. and Tabitha (Owsley) Cropper, who came from that state to Colorado in

1859.  Their residence was at Denver six years, and in their dwelling they had

the first paneled door in the town.  From Denver they moved to Pueblo, remaining

three years, then located at Colorado Springs where the father died in 1881, at

the age of sixty years.  His wife preceded him to the grave many years, dying in

1864, aged twenty-seven.  Mr. and Mrs. Moore have had six children, five of whom

are living, Matthew, Maud, Earl, Jessie and Dora.  A son named Edward is

deceased.  When Mr. Moore came in his childhood to Denver there was but one tent

and one log cabin as the beginning of the present great and progressive city. 

The family crossed the plains in a prairie schooner, the usual mode of travel in

these parts at that time.  After their arrival, they had considerable trouble

with the Ute Indians on different occasions.  

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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