WILLIAM V. MOORE - Biography

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This biography appears on page 646 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

WILLIAM V. MOORE, farmer, Sec. 28 P. O. Burlington; born in Orange Co.,
N. Y., Jan. 15, 1818; in 1842, he came to Racine County and located in
the town of Raymond, where he took up 160 acres Government land; he
built a residence and barns on it and otherwise improved it, and lived
there until January, 1865, when he moved to the city of Racine. He was
elected County Treasurer, in 1865, in Racine, which office he held till
March, 1869; at that time he came to Burlinoton and bought 200 acres
land in Sections 21-28; he built residence and barns, and improved it.
He married, in Raymond Township, December, 1844, Mary Miller, of
Yorkville, and they had one child, William M. Mr. Moore, while in
Raymond, was appointed Justice of the Peace, in 1849, and elected three
times, up to 1863; he was also appointed the first Town Clerk of Raymond
after the town was organized; he also held the positions of Supervisor
and Assessor several terms. Mr. Moore is now retired from public life,
and resides on his farm in Section 28, Burlington; his residence is on
the bank of Brown's Lake, a beautiful sheet of water and a noted
watering-place.