Biographical Sketch of Melville P. Moody, Johnson County, Missouri,
Warrensburg Township

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.

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Melville P. Moody was born in Warrensburg in 1854.  His father, W. B.
Moody, was born in Kentucky, his family coming to Missouri when he was
four years of age.  He was a pioneer citizen of Warrensburg and figured
largely in its growth and business life.  Mr. Moody's mother was a 
daughter of Major Anderson of Henry county who was also a native of
Kentucky, his family having immigrated to that state with Daniel Boone,
so Mr. Moody comes of American pioneer stock.  Mr. Moody received a 
common school education and began his business life as one of the firm
of W. B. Moody & Son.  Upon the failure of the firm caused by the panic
of 1873, Mr. Moody secured a position with the St. Louis house of the
American Baptist Publication Society, of Philadelphia and served it for
twenty years as assistant and manager of its St. Louis and Dallas, 
Texas houses.  He left this society to take charge of a charitable
tuberculosis sanatorium venture at Alamogordo, New Mexico.  The insti-
tution being destroyed by fire, he returned to Warrensburg and served
upon the "Star" until the consolidation of that paper with the "Journal
Democrat."  In 1913 Mr. Moody started the "Johnson County Democrat."
Mr. Moody has all his life had a predeliction for newspaper work and as
a side line has served several papers as correspondent, reporter and
miscellaneous writer, his specialty being semi-humorous paragraphing 
and verse.  Mr. Moody was married in early manhood to Miss Nancy Floyd,
of Illinois and they have two children: W. B. Moody, a successful merc-
hant of Greeley, Colorado; and Mrs. Frank A. Plumer, of Seattle, Wash-
ington.  In 1915 Mr. Moody was appointed Circuit Clerk of Johnson 
county by Governor Major to fill vacancy and in 1917, he was appointed
by Governor Gardner, as one of the inspectors of the State Food and
Drug Commission, for a term of four years.  

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