Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Moore, Robert February 7, 1846 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jan Cortez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00020.html#0004939 April 17, 2009, 5:39 pm Author: Chapman Brothers ROBERT MOORE, farmer, sec. 23, Millbrook Tp., was born in one of the northern counties of Ireland, Feb. 7, 1846, and is a son of Joshua and Margaret (Armstrong) Moore, also natives of the same section of the Emerald Isle. Mr. Moore came from his native country to Canada in the spring of 1871, and was a resident of the Cominion one year. He came to Michigan in the spring of 1872, and settled in the township of Millbrook, where he was engaged as a farm laborer until 1877. In that year he bought 40 acres of unimproved land on sec. 23, where he has built a house and placed about 18 acres of land in tillage. He was married in Stanton, Montcalm Co., Oct. 12, 1874, to Estella, daughter of H.B. and Ruth Wolcott, who was born Feb. 29, 1856, in Shiawassee Co., Mich. They have had four children: Emma E., born July 17, 1875; Margaret L., Dec. 2, 1878; Lewis S., May 22, 1880; Wm. H., Feb. 13, 1883. Mr. Moore belongs to the Republican party. In the spring of 1883 he was elected District Overseer, and also holds the office of School Director. He and his wife are members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Additional Comments: 1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/mecosta/bios/moore562nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb