Albany County WY Archives Biographies.....Moore, James R. 1845 - 
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JAMES R. MOORE.

   A successful business man and property owner of the city of Laramie. Wyoming,
and a progressive and popular citizen, is James R. Moore, the subject of this
review. He was born in 1845. in Indiana, the son of James P. and Sarah
(Worthington) Moore, the former a native of Ohio, and the latter of England. The
father followed the occupation of farming in Morgan county, Ohio, where he was
born in 1822, and removed to White county, Indiana, in 1843, continuing to be a
farmer until his death in 1888. He was the son of James P. and Mary Ann (Brown)
Moore, and was a steadfast and loyal Whig, and afterward a pioneer of the
Republican party. His father, the grandsire of J. R. Moore, was a native of
Massachusetts, who emigrated in early days to Ohio, and there followed the
occupation of farming up to the time of his death in 1862. The grandmother, Mary
Ann (Brown) Moore, was a native of Ireland and came from her native country to
Massachusetts when a small child with her parents. Subsequently she made her
home in Ohio, where she married and passed the remainder of her life, passing
away in 1873 at the age of seventy-three years. The mother of Mr. Moore was a
daughter of Richard and Mary (Cook) Worthington, both natives of England. She
came from her native country with her parents when she was one year old and they
established their home in White county, Indiana. Here she was married to James
T. Moore in 1844. Her father, Richard Worthington, passed away in Indiana, in
1866, at the age of seventy-five years, and her mother in 1867 at the age of
sixty-three. James R. Moore grew to manhood in Indiana, and received his early
education in the public schools of White county. In 1863 he left school and
enlisted as a private soldier in Co. F. One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana
regiment, and served during the remainder of the war, being mustered out in 1866
as a non-commissioned officer. During his term of military service he
participated in not less than sixteen battles, but was fortunate enough to
escape without serious injury. At the end of the war he engaged in farming in
Indiana, where he remained until 1881, when he disposed of his property in that
state and removed his residence to Kansas, where he resided conducting the same
occupation for five years, in 1886 removing to Nebraska. He continued here in
the same business until 1892, when he disposed of his farm and with his family
came to Laramie. Here he engaged in ranching and stockraising, and also in
burning lime, operating large kilns situated about one and one-half miles east
of the city. He is still successfully engaged in these various lines of industry
and has established himself as one of the prosperous and progressive business
men of that section of the state. By his industry, enterprise, and good business
management he has built up a large and profitable business in the different
lines which have occupied his attention and he is now counted as one of the
substantial property owners of that vicinity. In 1872 he was united in marriage
in his native state of Indiana. with Miss Mary E. Holdstock, a native of that
state and a daughter of Ephraim and Ann (Fishbeck) Holdstock, well-known and
respected residents of Indiana. Mrs. Moore's father was born in Elmira, N. Y.,
in 1825. He was a mechanic and removed from New York in early life to Michigan
and subsequently established his home in Fulton county, Indiana, where he passed
away in 1851. He was the son of James P. and Margaret (Meadest) Holdstock,
natives of England, who had emigrated to the United States in 1824, later
removing to Indiana, where he died in 1850, at the age of sixty-nine years.
Margaret (Meadest) Holdstock died in 1866 in Indiana, both her parents are
buried in the family cemetery in the old homestead. James P. Holdstock was the
son of John P. and Sarah (Saxton) Holdstock. natives of England. The mother of
Mrs. Moore, whose maiden name was Ann Fishbeck, was a native of Huron county,
Ohio, where she was born in 1821. Removing in early life to Fulton county,
Indiana, she was there married in 1844 to Ephraim Holdstock, being the daughter
of Freeman and Mary (Jackson) Fishbeck, respected oldtime residents of Indiana,
and she is now living at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Freeman Fishbeck
was the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Freeman) Fishbeck, the former of German and
the latter of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have two children, William E.
and Mary E. The latter is a young woman of charming traits of character and is
justly popular in the refined social circles of Laramie City. The family are
among the most highly respected in the city of their residence. The son, William
E., is a stockgrower and ranchman, owning and operating a ranch on the Pioneer
ditch. He is a young man of excellent character and principle and is respected
by all.


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