BIO: Johnston Moore, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

388   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

  JOHNSTON MOORE, of Carlisle, is a descendant of James Moore, who came 
to America from Ireland in 1739, and purchased large tracts of land 
along the Yellow Breeches Creek.  At the death of James Moore, which 
occurred about the close of the eighteenth century, he left four sons 
and three daughters.  The third son, John, who was born August 29, 
1740, and died October 18, 1822, married Eleanor Thompson, who was born 
in 1746 and died May 15, 1817.  At their death they left five sons and 
two daughters.  James Moore, Esq., the eldest son, born in 1765, was 
married January 28, 1808, to Nancy Johnston, of Antrim Township, 
Franklin Co., Penn., a daughter of Col. Thomas Johnston, a 
distinguished officer of the Revolution.  (It may be mentioned here 
that these Johnstons are descendants of the celebrated Johnstons of 
Dumfrieshire, Scotland.  James, the great-grandfather of Johnston 
Moore, came to America in 1735.  They were also among the noted 
military families of Pennsylvania.)  Dr. Robert, a brother of Col. 
Thomas Johnston, and who was an intimate friend of Washington and La 
Fayette and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, joined the 
American forces before Boston, and continued with them until the 
surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktown.  James Moore, Esq., died in 1813, 
and his wife in 1823, leaving one son, Johnston Moore, born September 
5, 1809.  After the death of his parents he lived with his aunt, 
Elizabeth Johnston McLanahan, at her home, Prospect Hill, near 
Greencastle.  He was educated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, and 
during this time lived with his guardian, Andrew Carothers, Esq.  At 
the age of eighteen he took possession and management of his estate, 
including the original lands which had descended to him from his great-
grandfather James, and which he still holds.  On the 15th of July, 
1836, he married Mary Veasey Parker, daughter of Isaac Brown Parker, of 
Carlisle.  They had three sons and six daughters.  All of these 
children are dead except three daughters.  Johnston Moore's life has 
been passed quietly in the management of his estate and in pursuit of 
his favorite sports, hunting and fishing.  He owns one of the finest 
trout preserves in the State.  "Bonny Brook," one mile and a half from 
his home.  He is a vestryman of St. John's Church, and has lived since 
his marriage at his present residence in Carlisle.