Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Jacob D. MOORE

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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JACOB D. MOORE - is the introducer of the famous Shaver plow, and the Hathaway Stove,
manufactured by the Ronceverte Foundry Company, and he helped locate all the 
machinery used by that Company, coming to make his home in Greenbrier County 
in 1882.  He was born in Pennsylvania, October 1, 1832, and his parents are Isaac 
and Jane (DUTTON) MOORE, both born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the year 
1807.  His father died December 30, 1844, and his mother died March 2, 1882. Jacob 
D. MOORE served in the Union army, Company E, 85th Pennsylvania Infantry, and then 
three years in Company K, 5th United States Artillery.  His brother Isaac A., was a 
member of Company G, 8th Pennsylvania Reserve, and his brother Abraham served in 
140th Pennsylvania Infantry. The first wife of Jacob D. MOORE was Harriet N. BAKER, 
and she died May 2, 1877, and is buried at Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Their children 
were nine: Helen R., born January 18, 1855; Isaac, September 30, 1856; Jennie, May 
25, 1858; Henry B., January 21, 1860 died in March following; Frank, September 3, 
1862; George A., February 6, 1868; Alexander C., June 20, 1871; Aggie, October 25, 
1875. The three youngest are with their father, the other living children residents
in Pennsylvania. The present wife of Mr. MOORE is Harriet, daughter of John and 
Elizabeth (BOARD) FRANKENBERRY. They were both born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania,
and her birth was in that county on the 24th of April, 1851. Her father is no longer 
living.  She became the wife of Mr. MOORE in Pennsylvania, May 9, 1878, and they have 
had three children: Milton K., born May 29, 1879, died December 18, 1879; Lorena 
L., October 19, 1881, and Carrie B., March 20, 1883.  Jacob D. MOORE's post Office
address is Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.