Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Moore, Thomas M.  1832 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Thomas M. Moore, one of the successful and progressive farmers of Montrose

county, Colorado, is justly entitled to the prominence he has among the men of

this part of the state who are engaged in the industry which he has reduced to a

science and followed through life with system and intelligence worthy of

admiration and sure to bring good results.  He learned the business in one of

the great grain states of the middle West that lie in the arms of the Missouri

and the Mississippi, and practiced it there for more than third of a century. 

In that section of the country the extent of the acreage devoted to cereals, the

volume of the harvest, the commercial importance of the product, its

far-reaching results and the mighty machinery devised to gather and prepare it

for market go far toward making a modern world wonder.  He was born in McMinn

county, Tennessee, in 1832, and is the son of Jabez and Alatha (Baker) Moore,

natives of that state who many years ago were laid to rest far from the place of

their birth in a region whither they had come to find a new home of hope and

promise in the morning of its civilization and in which they lived to enjoy its

noonday splendor of accomplished results.  They were born in 1800, and in 1850

settled in Davis county, Iowa, removing later to Taylor county, in the same

state, where they were prosperous and successful farmers and where they passed

the remainder of their lives, the mother dying in 1871, in her seventy-first

year, and the father in 1876, in his seventy-sixth.  They were members of the

Missionary Baptist church.  The mother was the daughter of Love and Priscilla

(Tipton) Baker, who were born and reared in Tennessee and removed from there to

Georgia early in their married life, remaining there until the death of the

father, after which the mother came to Iowa and passed the rest of her days with

her daughter.  Mr. Moore was the fifth of the eleven children born to his

parents, and lived with them in his native state until he reached the age of

eighteen, then accompanied them to Iowa, where he soon after engaged in farming

on his own account, which he continued in Davis and Taylor counties in that

state until 1886.  He then rented his farm there and came to live in Colorado,

purchasing the place on which he now resides, two miles and a quarter west of

Montrose.  Here he has since that time been actively occupied in general farming

and raising brooded stock and superior qualities of fruit.  In the stock

industry he has given attention specially to the production of pure bred Norman

horses, and in the fruit industry to growing high grades of apples, peaches and

plums.  He has thirty-five acres of his farm in fruit trees and they reward his

attention with abundant crops of excellent fruit.  He was married in 1858 to

Miss Mary F. Mattix, a native of Park county, Indiana, the daughter of John and

Nancy Mattix, who moved from Indiana, the state of their nativity, when Mrs.

Moore was a young girl.  She grew to womanhood in Iowa and was married there. 

Mr. and Mrs. Moore have had ten children, eight of whom are living, Ida, Wiley,

William, Chester, Rosa, Arthur, Allie and James.  Charles, their first born,

died in infancy and was buried in Taylor county, Iowa; and John Oscar, another

son, died since they came to Colorado and was buried at Montrose.  The parents

are passing the evening of life in contentment and comfort after many struggles,

and are secure in the general esteem and good will of the community in which

their energy and worth have been so signally displayed.  Mr. and Mrs. Moore have

for many years been faithful and active members of the Missionary Baptist church.  

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

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