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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  DR. GEORGE O. MOORE, president of the State Bank of Worthington, was one of

the very first of the colonists to arrive in Nobles county, and Worthington has

been his home ever since January, 1872.



  Dr. Moore was born in Iowa City, Iowa, March 28, 1842, the son of Benjamin P.

and Emily (Bliss) Moore. The father was of Irish descent. He was born in

Bradford, Vermont, Sept. 20, 1801, learned the carpenter trade, and moved to

Iowa City, Iowa, in 1841. There he assisted in the erection of the Iowa capitol

building, which is now the state university building. Later he moved to Delphos,

Ohio, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and where he died of cholera

July 18, 1853. Our subject's mother was of Scotch descent. She was born in

Vershire, Vermont, Feb. 18, 1807, and died Feb. 4, 1895.



  Dr. Moore received a common school education and then entered the medical

department of the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the

class of 1867. Then he entered upon the practice of his profession, which he

followed five years in Indiana and Ohio. On the 26th day of January, 1872, Dr.

Moore arrived in Worthington, coming as a member of the colony, and that village

has been his home ever since. His decision to join the colony and come to Nobles

county was reached through the influence of the late Rev. Robert McCune. He

first became acquainted with Rev. Robert McCune while that gentleman was pastor

of a church in an Ohio town. Later when the preacher became managing editor of

the Toledo Blade and the colony company was using that paper to advertise the

colonization scheme, Rev. McCune urged Dr. Moore to join the colony and locate

in the new village of Worthington.



  In the village of Worthington Dr. Moore practiced medicine until 1883. Since

that time he has been connected with the Bank (now State Bank) of Worthington,

at first as cashier and later as president. He was one of the organizers of the

Minnesota Loan & Investment Co., and became its secretary. Dr. Moore is a

prominent and influential member of the Union Congregational church of

Worthington, and was one of the charter members. He has never held public

office, has never used intoxicating liquor as a beverage, nor tobacco in any

form, and has never been kept from active duty a single day on account of illness.



  Dr. Moore was married Dec. 2, 1869, to Clara F. Poster, of Masonville,

Delaware county, N. Y. To them have been born one son—George F., born in 1872,

and now engaged in business in Chicago.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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