Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Moore, Robert R. 1841 - 
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Author: Ed Blair

 Robert R. Moore, of De Soto, Kan., is a Johnson county pioneer and Civil war 
veteran. He is a native of Ohio, born in Trumbull county in 1841, and is a son 
of John and Mary (Crooks) Moore, both natives of Ohio. Robert R. Moore was one 
of a family of seven, three of whom are now living as follows: Sarah Steel 
resides in Ohio; Alice Sheldon, a resident of Johnson county, and Robert R., 
the subject of this sketch. Robert R. Moore was reared and educated in his 
native State and about the time he reached the age of manhood the Civil war 
broke out and he enlisted in Company H, Eighty-seventh regiment, Ohio 
infantry, and was afterwards transferred to the One Hundred and Seventy-first 
regiment, Ohio infantry. He was with his regiment in many important battles 
and a number of skirmishes. He was at Harper's Ferry, and in the campaign in 
the Shenandoah Valley. Mr. Moore was never wounded in the service, but was 
taken prisoner and later paroled. In 1868 he came to Kansas, locating at De 
Soto where he worked at the blacksmith trade for a time, and later worked at 
his trade in the Potawatomie Indian Reservation in Jackson county, Kansas. Mr. 
Moore relates many interesting and amusing incidents in connection with his 
stay on the Indian reservation. One of his recollections, of the nature of the 
noble "red man" was on an occasion when some friends of Mr. Moore, from the 
East were visiting the reservation and they were very anxious to witness an 
exhibition of the Indians' skill with the bow and arrow. The Indians, however, 
were reluctant to stage the exhibition until finally one of the white men 
placed his hat on the fence and then all the Indians present shot at the hat 
and the white men had seen the exhibition, but one of them was hatless as 
there was nothing left of the hat but shreds. After remaining on the Indian 
reservation a few years, Mr. Moore returned to De Soto, and since that time 
has been engaged in farming. He now owns 240 acres of land about two miles 
west of De Soto where he has been engaged in farming since 1880. He was 
married in 1863 in Trumbull county, Ohio, to Miss Lusina Belden and one child, 
John, was born to this union. Mrs. Moore died in 1908. Mr. Moore has taken an 
active part in the political life of Johnson county and has served one term as 
county commissioner, and made a record notable for the painstaking care with 
which he administered public affairs.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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