Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....MOORE, N. Patterson 1824 - living in 1899
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  N. PATTERSON MOORE, one of the progressive and substantial citizens of the
  village of Buckhorn, has been successfully engaged in wagon-making there since
  1862. He is a son of John and Joanna (Appleman) Moore, and was born in Madison
  township, Columbia County. March 17, 1824.
  
    The paternal great-grandfather of our subject was a native of England and came
  to America prior to the War of the Revolution, settling on the New Jersey side
  of the Delaware River just above Philadelphia, where he owned two farms. He
  reared a family, one of his children being Samuel Moore, the grandfather of our
  subject, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War. He was a great champion of
  Washington, under whom he served, and during his latter days would not stand by
  and hear the Father of his Country criticised. At the close of the war he
  settled on a farm near Petersburg, Northumberland County, and later in Madison
  township, Columbia County, where he owned two farms, aggregating 224 acres. He
  was a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he served as elder for many
  years.
  
    John Moore, the father of our subject, the youngest of a family of ten
  children, was born in Northumberland County, Pa., in 1797. He was one of the
  prosperous farmers of West Hemlock township, Montour County, where he owned a
  farm of 124 acres of good land. During his early life he was for a short time
  engaged in distilling. Religiously he was an adherent to the faith of the
  Presbyterian Church. In political views he sided with the Democratic party. He
  was united in the holy bonds of wedlock to Joanna Appleman, a daughter of
  Mathias Appleman, a farmer of Benton township, Columbia County, and they are the
  happy parents of seven children: N. Patterson, the gentleman whose name appears
  at the head of these lines; Mathias; Samuel; John; William Boyd; Sarah Cox; and
  Mrs. Mary Ellen Purcel.
  
    N. Patterson Moore received his intellectual training in the public schools
  and at Bloomsburg Academy, after which he taught school for one term. He then
  learned the wagon-making trade, which he followed first in Northumberland County
  and then in Hunterdon County, N. J., where he was employed in a first-class
  shop. In 1848 he moved to Benton, Columbia County, where he conducted a shop in
  connection with agricultural pursuits until 1862, when he moved to Buckhorn, and
  has since been engaged in the wagon-making trade. During his many years at his
  trade he has acquired great skill and his services are always in demand. He is
  held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens.
  
     On June 6, 1840, our subject was united in marriage to Araminta Kline, a
  daughter of Isaac Kline, who was for many years a justice of the peace in Orange
  township, Columbia County, and they are parents of three daughters and two sons,
  namely: Mary Joanna, wife of John Shultz, a farmer of Madison township, Columbia
  County; John, a wagon-maker of Wilkesbarre; Lavina, who was formerly a teacher
  but is now a milliner; Charles H., ex-county surveyor of Columbia County, and
  now a teacher and principal of the Nescopeck schools; and Elizabeth, a graduate
  of the State Normal School of Bloomsburg and for seven years a successful
  teacher, who is now the wife of John H. Wingert, a prominent farmer and teacher
  of Lewisburg, Pa. Politically Mr. Moore is a Democrat and was elected justice of
  the peace in May, 1869, which office he has since satisfactorily filled.
  Socially he is a member of Catawissa Lodge, No. 349, F. & A. M.; Catawissa
  Chapter, No. 168; Crusade Commandery, No. 12, Knights Templar; and a member of
  the Masonic Consistory, of which he is past high priest and eminent commander.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
    
    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
    Published by 
    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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