Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Moore, John D. December 26, 1855 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Moore, John D., Herkimer, was born in Herkimer county, December 26, 1855.  
After receiving a common school education he learned the carpenter trade, then 
was clerk for six years, after which he formed a co-partnership with Oliver H. 
Perry, which still exists.  Mr. Moore was elected president of the village in 
1885, trustee in 1889, and re-elected in 1890.  He married Miss Libbie Davis, 
a daughter of H. R. Davis.  They have three children, two boys and a girl.  
Oliver H. Perry was born in Herkimer, July 3, 1848, and has always lived here. 
He married Miss Nancy J. Moore, a sister of John D. Moore.  They have no 
children.  This firm has a Carriage and Harness Repository.  They are large 
real estate owners, and have built up a section of this village.  They also 
own a large dairy farm just outside of the village.  They are both energetic, 
enterprising, and reliable business men and citizens.  Mr. Moore is also 
foreman of the Excelsior Hook and Ladder Company, of Herkimer.  In the year 
1880 was formed the co-partnership which now exists, of Perry & Moore.  They 
were at that time and for some years engaged in the manufacture of carriages, 
sleighs, etc., until factory work compelled them to go out of manufacturing 
and start a repository for the sale of new work, and finally to the exclusion 
of manufacturing, as all small concerns must do.  At this time they were 
engaged in the milk business, but their supply not being large enough to meet 
the demand of their customers, they bought more land in the corporate limits 
of the village, in all about twenty-three acres, after which, in extending 
streets and laying out some new ones, there was added to the village seventy-
seven village lots.  This property made the firm largely interested in what 
was at this time the southern suburbs of the corporation.  The school district 
comprises the whole corporation of the village.  About 1878 there was a new 
school building erected, and a few years ago it was found inadequate for its 
purpose.  The subject of enlarging its capacity was agitated and brought 
before a school meeting called for the purpose, when the subject was voted 
down.  This firm having a large interest on the opposite side of the railroad 
(where about one-half of the children lived, who had to cross the railroad 
tracks), after three or four school meetings, was successful in getting a new 
school building placed below the railroad at a cost of about $20,000.  The 
pleasant village of Herkimer has now a school-house second to no other in this 
section, and it may be said that is it largely owing to the influence of this 
firm.  The firm besides selling lots have erected twenty-five new buildings on 
their own account, some of which they have sold to honest toilers, and some of 
which they rent.


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.

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