Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Moore, Thomas C. 1827 - ? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Crook jlcrook@rof.net March 26, 2006, 8:55 am Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado Thomas C. Moore, the second son and oldest child now living of the eleven born to his parents, Joseph D. and Jane (Brown) Moore, is a native of Morgan county, Ohio, where his life began in 1827. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and when a young man came to Ohio, then the far West of the country, and settled on a farm in what is now Morgan county. He was a blacksmith by trade and worked at his craft, for which there was great need in the sparsely settled country in which he lived at that time and conducted the operations of his farm also. In 1855 he moved his family to the vicinity of Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained until his death in 1865, at the age of sixty-five. He was a son of Joseph and Mary (Clemson) Moore, Pennsylvanians by nativity and Quakers in religious belief. Joseph was a blacksmith and his son learned the trade under his instructions. The father of Joseph was James Moore, who was born and reared in Ireland and came to this country a young man, settling in Pennsylvania where he passed his life working at his trade as a blacksmith. Thomas C. Moore’s mother was born in Perry county, Ohio, the daughter of Isaac and ______ (Clayton) Brown, of that state. Her father came from Ireland with his parents when he was a child and they took up their residence in Ohio, where he grew to manhood and remained until his death. She was the mother of eleven children, and died in 1881, aged seventy-five. Mr. Moore grew to manhood in Ohio and Kentucky, and after reaching his legal majority lived six years in Indiana, taking up a tract of uncultivated land in White county and making a good farm of it. He then moved to Iowa where he did the same, and on the farm which he redeemed from the wilderness in that state he lived thirty-five years. At times in the various places of his residence he has worked at the carpenter trade, which he learned before leaving Kentucky. In 1893 he came to Colorado and settled on the farm of eighty acres which has since been his home. Soon after taking possession of it he planted about half of it in fruit trees and these have been in good bearing order for several years, and growing in value and increasing their yield from year to year until they are now in full vigor and very productive and profitable. He conducts a stock business of good proportions but distinguished more for the quality of its product than its extent, his chief concern in this line being the breeding and handling superior horses of Hambletonian strain. He was married in 1851 to Miss Elizabeth Betts, a native of Ohio, who lived on the farm adjoining that of his father, and with whom he was in almost constant companionship from childhood. She died in 1897 at his present home, aged sixty-seven years, and was buried at Grandview cemetery at Montrose. Having no children of their own, they reared a niece and an adopted son, Francis Moore, who married Miss B.W. Marsh, of Montrose. Mrs. Moore’s parents were Jordan and Nancy (Smith) Betts, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Ohio. They lived many years in Ohio, then moved to Illinois where they both died. Additional Comments: From Progressive Men of Western Colorado. Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/montrose/bios/moore470gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb