OBIT: William Henderson MOORE, 1889, of interest in Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by SW Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ DEATH OF COLONEL W. H. MOORE. The TRIBUNE yesterday made a brief note of the death of Colonel William Henderson Moore, at his home in Lock Haven, on Sunday. The Lock Haven Express furnishes this sketch of his life: He was born March 26, 1828, in Ebensburg, Cambria county, and was the son of Silas and Lucretia Henderson Moore. He was of Scotch Irish descent, his ancestors being the Moores and Blairs who settled in that portion of the state. He was a grandson of the noted John Blair, after whom Blair county was named. Colonel Moore's father, Silas Moore, was the pioneer in the transportation business in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, his stage lines occupying the routes now traversed by the Pennsylvania railroad system. The boyhood of the deceased was spent in Pittsburgh. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson college, where he was a classmate of Hon. James G. Blaine. After his graduation he read medicine in Philadelphia and received the degree of M.D., but never practised the profession. He was married in 1851 to Margaret S. Walters, of Harrisburg. He was appointed a member of Governor Bigler's staff, with the rank of colonel. For a number of years he was engaged in lumbering in Dauphin county. In the year 1863 he came to Lock Haven as manager for the firm of P. P. Dickinson & Co., lessees of the McHenry and Eagleton collieries in the Tangascootac region. When the banking firm of Moore, Simpson & Co. was established in 1867, Colonel Moore became its president. When the banking firm was merged into the State bank he continued to be its president until the fall of 1886, when he resigned on account of ill health. In politics he was a democrat and held many offices and positions of honor and trust in Lock Haven. He was at one time president of the board of trustees of the Central State Normal school, president of city council, of which he was a member for several terms, having resigned his membership in that body in the fall of 1886 owing to poor health. He was a vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal church for the past twenty years, up to the time of his death, the immediate cause of which was paralysis. He leaves a widow, one son, H. W. Moore, and one daughter, Mrs. W. L. Merwin, all residents of Lock Haven. Altoona Tribune, February 21, 1889