Biographical Sketch of Charles Carroll MOORE (1881); Chester County, PA

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from Futhey and Cope's THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. (1881)

Of the family of  9 sons of Robert and Rahel Smedley Moore, the second, Charles 
Carroll Moore, was born July 13, 1823.  He was raised on a farm, and went to the 
public schools, and later attended for 2 seasons the noted academy at 
Unionville, of which that distinguished educator, Jonathan Gause, was principal.  
He was married 12-3-1846, to Elizabeth B, daughter of Jonathan Wells and 
Elizabeth Boyer Hoffman, descendants of the Hoffman, Boyer, and Riter families, 
very early settlers in West Whiteland twp, one of whom Hoffman donated the land 
upon which the Grove Methodist Episcopal church was erected.  The Boyers settled 
at Oakland, and the Riters in Uwchlan.
     He began farming in 1847 on the farm he now owns of 126 acres, and which he 
purchased on borrowed capital and paid for, as his debt became due, entirely 
from the proceeds of the farm, thus demonstrating that farming does pay if 
carried on systematically and with the necessary will poser and endrgy.  He has 
made many valuable improvements to his buildings and orchards.  Is a general 
farmer, with special atention paid to dairying..  Of his 7 children 3 are 
deceased - Anna Mary, Charles Henry, and J. Howard - and the other 4 are 
Jonathan Wells, Thomas Elwood, Susan Hoffman and Clinton Riter.
     Robert Moore in early life was a cabinet-maker and subsequently a farmer, 
and his wife, Rachel Smedley, came of a family contemporary with the settlement 
of the county, and whose descemdamts are very numerous in its borders.  The 
subject of this sketch has ever taken great iterest in the common schools and 
served many years as a school director to the acceptance of the public and 
greatly to the advantage of educational interests.  He is superintendent of the 
Friends' First-Day School.  Is a Democrat and has always been largely identified 
with the politics of the county.  He is master of Grange Lodge # 53, Patrons of 
Husbandry, in Upper Uwchlan twp, in the western part of which his farm is 
situated, with his post office at Milford Mills.  His home is most pleasantly 
located in a beautiful region of country, where, with his respected family, 
bountiful hospitality is despensed, and where, the architect of his own fortune, 
he resides with ease and comfort.