BIO: N. Robert MOORE, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 450 & 451.
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  N. R. MOORE, funeral director and embalmer, one of the representative 
business men of DuBois, Pa., was born August 4, 1873, at Rockdale Mills, 
Jefferson County, Pa., and is a son of Thomas and Ellen (McMorris) Moore.
  Thomas Moore was one of the pioneer settlers at Rockdale Mills, Pa.  He was 
born in Ireland, came to America in early manhood and was married in 
Philadelphia to Ellen McMorris, also of Irish birth.  They determined to 
establish a home and as they had but small capital, they were forced to seek a 
still unsettled region, one in which their thrift and industry would provide 
for their future.  They crossed the mountains into Jefferson County and reached 
Tyrone in Blair County and from there went by ox-teams to Rockdale Mills, where 
they started a general store, Mr. Moore having to haul all his merchandise from 
Tyrone, a long distance.  He was a cabinetmaker and a part of his work was the 
making of coffins.  He was a very neat and expert workman.  At that time the 
shape of a coffin was like that of a kite and Mr. Moore's measurements were 
very simple, length of body and breadth of shoulders being alone necessary.  
For many years he constructed these temporary receptacles of the dead in his 
neighborhood.  He was widely known and lived a busy, useful, dying at the age 
of seventy-three years.  His widow survived until 1903, when aged seventy-four 
years.  They had the following children born to them:  Ella, who is the wife of 
A. U. Moore; James, who is deceased; Louisa, who is the wife of A. J. Riley; 
John; Bessie, who is the wife of J. H. Brown; Emma; Matilda M., who is the wife 
of W. F. Hay; N. Robert, and William.
  N. Robert Moore first attended school at Rockdale Mills and later took a 
course in the Ohio Normal University, at Ada, O.  From the age of fourteen 
years until he was twenty-six years old he followed the carpenter's trade.  In 
1889 he went to Allegheny and there entered the well known undertaking 
establishment of James Lowery, in order to learn the business in a thorough 
manner, and later took a course and received his diploma, at the Champion 
College of Embalming.  He then engaged in an undertaking business and dealt 
also in furniture, at Rural Valley, where he continued until 1901, when he came 
to DuBois.  Here in 1901 he bought out the business of C. N. Miller, at his 
present location, on Long Avenue.  He purchased the property on September 15, 
1910, and on the fifth of the succeeding October, he suffered a loss of his 
buildings from fire.  He went into temporary quarters, where he remained until 
his present complete and commodious buildings were erected.  His office and 
show rooms occupy one-half of the ground floor of his building, with a morgue, 
sanitary in every particular, in the basement.  His office is handsomely 
furnished and every convenience is placed at the disposal of those who have 
business with him.  Mr. Moore has probably the finest general equipments for 
funerals in all this section.  He has a number of fine horses, among these 
being a team of pure white Arabians, which he purchased in Indiana and which 
are said to be the best matched team in Clearfield County.  He has a number of 
vehicles appropriate for his business, including black and white funeral cars, 
a silver grey ambulance, a call wagon, etc., all of these being given storage 
in a near-by livery stable.  Mr. Moore's patronage comes from over a wide 
territory.  His business is conducted with the dignity that it demands and 
careful attention is given to every detail.
  On October 28, 1898, Mr. Moore was married to Miss E. Pearl Laughery, a 
daughter of W. G. Laughery, of Beach Tree, Pa., and they have two children, 
Harold and Helen.  Mr. and Mrs. Moore are members of the Presbyterian church.  
In politics he is a Republican.  Fraternally he is a member of Garfield Lodge, 
No. 559, F. & A. M., and Garfield Chapter, No. 225, at DuBois, and also of the 
Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias.