Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of COL. HOUSTON BURGER MOORE, A. M. This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 202-205 COL. HOUSTON BURGER MOORE, A. M. The Greenbrier Military School for Boys has become an integral part of the history of Greenbrier county. It has added luster to Lewisburg as an educational center, and an honor has been bestowed upon the county seat by its location at that place, and only as an institution of learning having an interstate reputation could do. It is the only non-coeducational military and physical school in West Virginia with cerificates that will admit its graduates to our best colleges and universities. These increased advant-ages have come through the Moore brothers, whose connection with the work has given a magic touch to the institution ever since they took hold of it in 1906. A personal sketch of these men will more fully explain. Houston Burger Moore, principal of the school, was horn at Mingo, Randolph county, West Virginia, April 30, 1879. He is the son of William John Moore, horn at Mingo, July '5, 1849, and Ida Ella (Burger) Moore, who was horn at Sitlington, Bath county, Virginia, January 3, 1859. The marriage of this couple occurred October 13, 1874, and the children born to them were as follows: (i) Minnie, born September 30, 1875. now the wife of W. L. Reeves, of Mossey Creek, Va.; (2) H. B. Moore, of whom further; (3) David Tay Moore, of whom further; (4) Ethel Kate Moore, born January 14, 1883, teacher in Lewisburg; (5) Rev. Joseph M. Moore, of whom further; (6) Priscilla Leslie Moore, born October 15, 1887, the wife of Capt. Clarence M. McMurray, an army officer; (7) Emma Eliza Moore, born December 11, 1889, Lewisburg; (8) Willie J. Moore, born February 7, 1892, Lewisburg. H. B. Moore attended free schools and had instruction besides from private teachers during the earlier years of his life at Mossey Creek, Va., after which he entered Hampden-Sidney College, taking the degree of A. B. from that institution in 1902 and that of A. M. in 1903. In 1906, he came to Lewisburg to take charge of the Greenbrier Military School, then under the auspices of the Greenbrier Presbytery. Since that time it has been under the successful management of the Moore brothers. With the prestige of the church, their masterful hand has given the institution a reputation to be envied, and one that is abiding. From the time of their superintendency, the school has been moving gradually forward and until now a large corps of instructors are engaged in the work. August 1, 1912, Col. H. B. Moore was married to Miss Ida Virginia Jasper, and from this union two children were born, Caroline Nicholas Moore, June 27, 1913; and William John Moore, February i8, 1915. (See sketch of the Jasper family.) Colonel Moore is a member in high standing of the Presbyterian church. --------------------------------------------------------------- ADDENDUM: Submitted 24 Mar 2009 by Stuart Wester Grandson of Carolyn Moore Harris H B Moore was my great grandfather (Greenbrier county). After reading his bio I noticed several mistakes. The most important of which is the that he had 4 children from his marriage to Ida Jasper (big momma in my family). Caroline Nicholas, William John (Named after his grandfather), Houston Burger (most famous of all) and Jean. Camp shaw-mi-del-ca which was part of the military school was also left out. Also as far as I know HB Moore designed and built the only dam on the Greenbrier river(just up stream from Caldwell).