Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Moore, J. J.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   J. J. MOORE retired farmer, P.O. Quakertown, was born in 
1819.  The Moore family, of which he is the only living male 
representative in Bucks county, came of English Quaker 
stock.  The father of our subject, Richard Moore, was born 
in 1793 in Montgomery county, came to this county in 1816 
and settled here permanently in 1818.  He soon afterward 
started the first boarding school in what is now the borough 
of Quakertown and taught until 1825, when, on account of 
failing health, he gave up his profession. He was for many 
years identified with the abolition movement and  his house 
was a place of refuge for the fleeing slave, he aiding more 
refugees than any other man in the county.  His wife was 
Sarah Foulke, by whom he had two children:  John J. and 
Hannah, wife of William M. Levick, of Philadelphia.  After 
giving up teaching he gave his attention to conveyancing, 
settling many estates, and also engaged in farming.  He 
built the house now occupied by John J.  This was the first 
house in the northern end of Bucks county built without the 
use of spirituous liquor.  He was a man highly esteemed in 
the community and a prominent member of the Society of 
Friends.  His decease occurred April 30, 1875.  His wife 
died in 1852.  John Jackson Moore was born in what was 
recently the orphan school building and located on the place 
he now owns when seven years of age.