Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Moore, Milo August 7, 1839 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 November 1, 2008, 12:27 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Moore, Milo, Russia, was born in Russia August 7, 1839, son of Orson and Thirza (Salisbury) Moore, whos children were Sarah A. (deceased), wife of Hon. Daniel Northrop; Jane E. (deceased), Lyman (deceased), John (deceased), Thirza (deceased), Loretta (deceased), Miles and Eliza, wife of Edwin Knight, and Milo. Milo attended district school until seventeen years of age, when he entered Fairfield Seminary. At nineteen he commenced teaching, which he followed for six winters. When twenty-six years of age he traveled through the West. From 1866 to 1867 he followed cheesemaking. January 6, 1870, he married Mary C., daughter to Wililam and Susan (Millington) Buck, and has four children, William B., Jennie G., George O. and Charles M. He is a Republican, and has been overseer of the poor, town clerk and justice of the peace for the past sixteen years, and supervisor in 1881-82 and 1892. Orson was born in Brookfield, Mass., in August, 1801. He was justice of the peace sixteen terms, supervisor for three years and a member of the Legislature in 1862. He died November 27, 1881, and his wife, Thirza, died in 1842. In 1843 he married Matilda Salisbury, a sister of his former wife. He was the father of eight children. His grandfather, Thomas Moore, was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/moore584gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb