BIO: Orlando W. MOORE, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 327-328.
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  ORLANDO W. MOORE, Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Penn 
township, Huntingdon county, September 4, 1851. He is a son of Samuel 
and Nancy (Lee) Moore. His paternal grandfather, whose name is unknown 
to Mr. Moore, came to this country with his parents when he was a boy, 
settled in Huntingdon county, and there died. James Lee, maternal 
grandfather of Mr. Moore, was the son of a sea captain, and was born on 
his father's vessel, in mid-ocean. Samuel Moore was a native of Penn 
township, Huntingdon county, where he grew up a farmer boy, and where 
he resided, cultivating the soil, during his whole life. He was married 
in Penn township, but died in Walker township, Huntingdon county. His 
wife, Nancy (Lee) Moore, survived him for twenty years, and died in the 
borough of Rock Hill. Their children are: Orlando W.; Millie E., 
deceased, wife of James McDonald, of Mapleton, Pa.; Sally, wife of J. 
B. Hastings, of Huntingdon, Pa., both deceased; Susan, wife of John 
Hastings, of Huntingdon, both deceased; Jefferson S., resides at Logan 
Furnace, Mifflin county, Pa.; and Harry G., locomotive engineer and 
coal digger at Rock Hill, Pa.
  In Penn township, where Orlando W. Moore was born, he enjoyed but 
slender educational advantages; but in Walker township he attended 
school for a number of terms. At ten years of age he went to work at 
home, on the farm; from the time when he was fourteen until he was in 
his twenty-first year, he was employed in a brick-yard at Huntingdon. 
For one summer during that time he was employed in a brick-yard at 
Philipsburg, Pa. In 1871, at the age of twenty, Mr. Moore became 
foreman of a brick-yard at Orbisonia, and continued for two summers in 
that situation. When the East Broad Top Railroad was built, he was 
employed for eighteen months by the company as brakeman, and then 
promoted to shifter conductor, and weighmaster at Rock Hill Furnace, 
which position he held for fourteen years. He was then made conductor 
of passenger and freight trains, and has served in that capacity ever 
since. In April, 1896, Mr. Moor was appointed express messenger for the 
road, and still fulfills the duties belonging to that position. Since 
1879, Mr. Moore has had another class of business interests. In that 
year he formed a partnership with T.J.C. Ripple, for the manufacture of 
brick; they continued that enterprise until July, 1892, when they 
suspended operations in the brick-yard; a new firm was then 
constituted, known as the Coles' Run Lumber Company, in which the 
partners were T. J. C. Ripple and Dr. Lewis Royer. Two years later the 
firm was changed to the Ripple & Moore Lumber Company, which is still 
its designation. This firm, while manufacturing brick, furnished all 
that was used in the erection of brick buildings in Orbisonia and Rock 
Hill. Mr. Moore is a Republican, and, although he has never been an 
office-seeker, he has served four years in the borough council, and one 
year as assessor. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the 
I.O.O.F. at Orbisonia. Mr. Moore ranks among "self-made" men, having 
diligently worked his way to his present responsible and useful 
positions.
  Orlando W. Moore was married August 4, 1874, at Newton Hamilton, to 
Jennie E., daughter of Joseph P. and Elizabeth (Ripple) McKelvy. Their 
children are: Blanche, who died at five years of age; Frank, telegraph 
operator at Saltillo, Pa.; Charles Stewart, telegraph operator at 
Orbisonia; Ethel; and Walter F.