BIOGRAPHY: Samuel T. MOORE, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 645.

  SAMUEL T. MOORE, Milroy, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in Blair county, Pa., 
September 29, 1855, son of Johnston and Maria J. Moore.  In 1859, Mr. Moore's 
parents removed to Altoona, Pa.  Here he spent his boyhood.  At eighteen years 
of age he entered the car shops of the Northern Central railroad at Elmira, N. 
Y.  He was afterwards advanced to the position of conductor on the railroad from 
Canandaigua to Williamsport.  His next position was on the "White Flyer" mail 
train running from New York City to Pittsburg, on which he was injured in a 
wreck.  He then retired from the road, and learned stenography.  He took the 
dictations of editorials from Hon. David B. Hill while he was editor of the 
Elmira Gazette, and also from Hon. J. Sloat Fassett.  Mr. Moore conducted a 
school in shorthand writing, and organized the Buffalo School of Shorthand, of 
which he was principal for two years.  He then assumed a position with Hamilton 
& Mathews, wholesale hardware dealers, of Rochester, N. Y., which he held until 
1886, when he came to Milroy, and is now engaged there in civil engineering and 
surveying.  He has served as borough engineer of Lewistown.  Mr. Moore is 
interested in agriculture, and was secretary of the Mifflin County Poultry and 
Agricultural Association, and also secretary of the Good Roads League.  He is a 
Republican;  he has served as a justice of the peace.  Captain Moore takes an 
active interest in military and benevolent organizations.  He was a member of 
the National Guards of New York State, of the I. O. O. F., the Knights of 
Pythias and other orders.
  Captain Moore was married November 18, 1885, to Anna M., only daughter of 
Andrew and Anna M. Swartzell, of Milroy.  Their children are:  Irma Howard;  
Mary Theo;  and Helen Stewart, who died September 26, 1895.