Biographical Sketch of Thomas Lorenzo Moore, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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Thomas Lorenzo Moore was born in Quantico, Wicomico County, Maryland,
on the 24th day of October, 1855.  Leaving there in the spring of 1877,
he entered the printing business at Charleston, MO., and remained only
one year, when he embarked in the mercantile business at Blodgett,
Scott County, MO.  Three years later, or in the fall of 1882, he sold
out, and was appointed committee clerk in the State Senate during the
General Assembly, and held the position until removing to Stoddard
County, as manager and book keeper of the Gregory Lumber Company.  In
1884 he came to Cabool, and started the Record, which he now owns, and
conducts in a manner reflecting credit upon himself, and providing of
substantial benefit to the people of the community.  In the summer of
1886 he was elected city alderman, and also city clerk.  In 1888 he
was elected as representative to the General Lodge of the I. O. O. F.,
of the State of Missouri, from the district comprising Wright, Howell,
Shannon and Texas Counties.  The same year he was also elected justice
of the peace for Burdine Township, Texas County.  He is a Democrat 
politically, the principles of which party are warmly sustained through
the medium of his publication.

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