James E. Moore Biography


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	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 305-306

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JAMES E. MOORE. Good judgment, industry, and business tact are 
requisite to success in whatever vocation engaged, and it has been 
demonstrated in the calling of the agriculturist that close observation 
and study of natural phenomena are additional qualities which also go 
to insure a pleasing result. The subject of this review, is one of that 
class of agriculturists whose heart is in the work and whose 
intelligent labors have so arranged the affairs which have come to his 
notice as to bring prosperity and success. He is one of the leading 
farmers of Hague township, Clark county, and his residence on section 9 
is one of comfort, and is surrounded by all the adjuncts of a model 
rural home. 

Our subject was born in Nova Scotia, August 11, 1859, and was the third 
child born to John and Mary J. (Speicht) Moore. In the family there 
were six brothers and sisters of our subject and three half sisters, 
daughters of the father by a former marriage. Born near Annapolis 
Royal, that historic valley, the scenes described by Longfellow in the 
opening lines of "Evangeline " were familiar to our subject, and here 
amid romantic surroundings his early life was passed in uneventful 
toil. His trade was that of ship-caulker, and he states that in the 
struggle to provide daily bread he found little time to dream of the 
"forest primeval, the murmuring pines and hemlocks, " but that so 
meager were his earnings that he finally decided to emigrate to the 
United States. He plied his trade in various cities, including Bath, 
Jersey City and New York. 

In 1882 he left the east, determined to make a home for himself in the 
far west. He came to Dakota in the autumn of that year with his 
brother, and they took adjoining tracts of land, and built a house upon 
the dividing line which furnished a home for both. The first few 
winters were spent in the woods of Minnesota and Wisconsin, where he 
could earn a little money by arduous toil, but he felt that he was 
establishing a home, which he had always desired, and this gave him 
courage to endure. His success has been complete, for he now owns one 
of the most valuable farms in Clark county, has firmly established 
himself in the good graces of his neighbors, and has become a man of 
influence and a citizen of genuine worth in the community. 

In 1895 Mr. Moore was married to Miss Estella Hill, whose parents were 
also residents of Hague township. To them three children have been 
born, named as follows: Amelia, Dorothy, and Mildred. Mr. Moore takes 
an active interest in the political welfare of the county and state. He 
was president of the old County Farmers' Alliance and attended as a 
delegate the Huron convention, which witnessed the birth of Populism in 
Dakota. He afterwards became a stanch supporter of that political faith 
and was nominated by his party for the office of state senator. He 
favors equal suffrage and state control of the liquor traffic.