Biographical Sketch of Joseph T. Moore, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Hon. Joseph T. Moore.  Prominent among the leading men of Marshfield,
and among those deserving special recognition for their long residence
in Webster county, stands the name of the above mentioned gentleman,
who was born in Giles county, Tenn., January 11, 1839.  His parents,
Jonathan F. and Mary (Camper) Moore, were both natives of Tennessee,
and both born in the year 1818.  The father died in Webster county, Mo.
in 1844, and the mother in the same county in 1876.  They were the 
parents of two children, their daughter dying in 1863.  Joseph T. 
Moore is the only one of the family now living.  In the fall of 1839
he came with his parents to what was then Pulaski county, and settled
on the James Fork of White River.  This county was afterward changed to
Wright county, and then to Webster county.  Mr. Moore was mainly self
educated, and in April, 1861, he enlisted in the Home Guards, and serv-
ed with them until the Wilson's Creek battle, August 10, 1861.  He then
went to Raleigh and enlisted on Col. John S. Phelps' regiment, and here
continued until he was discharged by reason of expiration of term of
service.  He then enlisted in the Eighth Missouri Cavalry, and upon the
organization of Company B he was elected second lieutenant.  He was 
discharged in the winter of 1863, on account of physical disability. He
was at the battles of Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, and rendered effec-
tive and useful service.  Having regained his health, he entered the
militia service of the State of Missouri, and was elected captain of
Company A, and continued in that position until peace was declared.  He
then began farming in High Prairie Township, where he now lives, and
where he owns 204 acres of land.  He taught one term of school in the
fall of 1869.  Previous to this, in 1863, he married Miss Sarah White,
who died in 1870.  To this union were born three children.  Mr. Moore
was married the second time in 1872, to Miss Martha Jane Morton, who
was born in North Carolina in 1850, and they have seven children.  Mr.
Moore has resided in this part of the state for forty-nine years, and 
is a representative citizen of the county.  He has been a life long
Republican in politics, casting his first presidential vote for Lincoln
in 1864.  In 1878 he was elected justice of the peace, and re-elected
in 1882.  In 1886 he was elected representative of this county by 122
majority, being the first Republican (straight) elected to the Legisla-
ture from this county in sixteen years.  In 1888 he was elected to the
same office by 158 majority.  He is one of the leading Republicans of
the county, and is a member of the G. A. R., Post No. 225.

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