Bio: James W. Moore, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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James W. Moore.  This, in brief, is the sketch of a man whose present 
substantial position in life has been reached entirely through his perseverance 
and the facts connected with his operations and their results only show what a 
person with courage and enlightened views can accomplish.  His reputation for 
honesty and integrity has been tried and not found wanting; his financial ability 
has been more than once put to the test, but never without credit to himself.  
His general mercantile establishment comprises a neat and well-selected stock of 
goods, and besides this he has an excellent plantation of 283 acres, seventy-five 
acres of which are good tillable land.  Mr. Moore was born in Claiborne Parish, La., 
July 15, 1858, being the sixth of seven children-six sons and a daughter: Perry 
(who is married and is a merchant of Claiborne Parish), John T. (deceased), Mollie 
(wife of J. F. Cox, a planter and lumberman of Bienville Parish), Charles (a 
merchant of Homer), James W., William (who resides in Homer), and a baby boy that 
died in infancy.  The parents of these children were born in Georgia, the father 
being a planter and dying there at the age of fifty years, his widow still 
surviving him.  James W. Moore, educated in the schools of Lisbon, has ever been 
the patron of educational institutions of all kinds.  He started out for himself 
a poor boy, but as has been seen, he has been successful, and his present 
prosperity he owes to his own indomitable will and energy.  Miss Fannie Ragan 
became his wife in 1886.  Her birth occurred in Lincoln Parish, La., in 1868, 
and her education was obtained in the common schools.  To her union with Mr. 
Moore two children have been born: Lois (aged two and one-half years) and 
Gertrude (aged eleven months).  Mr. Moore is a Democrat, and he and wife are 
worthy and earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Lisbon, La., 
and both are workers in the Sunday-school.

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