BIO: William 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 LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

557  SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

  WILLIAM MOORE, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Mount Holly Springs, 
was born in South Middleton Township, this county, November 28, 1835, 
in the house where he now resides.  His parents, William and Catharine 
(Reighter) Moore, were also natives of this county and of Scotch-Irish 
descent.  His father was a farmer and miller, and his grandfather, 
William Moore, also a farmer, was an early settler of this county.  
William Moore is the youngest in a family of six children, of which he 
and his sister Mary Ann (now the wife of John Craighead) are the only 
ones now residing in the county.  Our subject was reared on a farm, 
acquired a common school education, and farming and milling have been 
his chief business.  He is owner of 174 acres of land.  Our subject has 
been twice married; first in 1858, to Catharine, daughter of Jacob 
Ritner and granddaughter of ex-Gov. Joseph Ritner of Pennsylvania.  To 
this union were born the following named children:  Robert, a cattle-
dealer in Wyoming Territory; Emily and Bertha.  Mrs. Moore died in 
1866, and in 1869 Mr. Moore married, for his second wife, her sister 
Mary, and by this union has four children:  Jessie, Minnie, Norris and 
Hugh.  Mrs. Moore's father was a land surveyor and farmer, and his 
daughter Mary, being endowed with artistic taste, drew the drafts of 
the tracts of land for him; she is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  
Mr. Moore is a Democrat in politics.