A. Moore

As printed in 1906

A. MOORE, retired merchant of Lima, and for many years one of its leading men of business, was born in Butler County, Ohio, a son of one of the early pioneers of this section.

Mr. Moore was a babe in arms when his parents came to Lima and he lived near this city until about seven years of age, when the family removal was made to Warren County. From the public schools he entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and thus secured an excellent training for business. His earliest inclinations turned to merchandising and his first independent work was as a clerk in a grocery house in Cincinnati, where his salary was on the basis of $75 per annum. His industry and intelligent interest in the affairs of his employer soon advanced him, and by the time he was 18 years of age he was invited into partnership with M. C. Adams, of Eaton, Ohio, in a wholesale and retail grocery business. The firm of Moore & Adams established a store on Court street, Cincinnati, and during the first year did a business of $68,000. At the end, Mr. Adams offered Mr. Moore a good bonus to sell to him, which was accepted and Mr. Moore went to Cambridge City, Indiana, where he engaged as clerk in a dry goods business for two years.

After a short time Mr. Moore returned to Lima where his early childhood had been spent, secured a partner and went into the retail grocery business under the firm name of Moore & Lisle, which continued three years. Then our subject turned his attention to dry goods and established himself in business on the Public Square, Lima, where for 19 years he was one of the leading dry goods merchants.

Since retiring from active business life, Mr. Moore has enjoyed the recreation of travel, and with his family, has visited most of the interesting points in the United States. He has large real estate investments which require attention, though they do not absorb his time to such an extent as to preclude such enjoyment as ample means makes possible.

In 1856 Mr. Moore was married to Emaline Underwood, of Allen County, and by this union there were four children, the only one surviving being Eva, wife of Walter S. Mc- Nairy, of Lima. Mrs. Moore died in 1866. In 1868 Mr. Moore was united to E. Matilda Jacobs, a daughter of Thomas K. Jacobs, an old pioneer of this county. The following children were the fruit of this marriage, viz.: T. K., a physician, of Akron, Ohio; E. K., of Lima; Annie, who has been a successful teacher in Chicago; W. Cloyd, in the office of the Chicago & Erie Railroad Company at Chicago; and H. Stewart, of Lima. Mr. Moore has long been a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, of Lima. His business methods have given him a high standing in the business world, and he has constantly shown his public spirit in the promotion of various civic movements looking to the public welfare.

ant, at Beaver Dam, was born in Bath township, Allen County, Ohio, March 13, 1873, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Driver) Patterson.

John Patterson, father of J. E. Patterson, was a native of Allen County. He was a farmer and for some years operated a threshing machine. In 1873 he moved with his family to Nevada, and then returned to Ohio, settled on a farm and died in 1885, aged 45 years. He married Elizabeth Driver, who died at Lima, aged 65 years. She was born in Virginia. Their children were: Mary Jane, born in 1861, deceased in 1871; Emma C., born July 26, 1867, deceased December 28, 1871; Samuel, born June 5, 1870, deceased January 14, 1872 —all three children victims of an epidemic of diphtheria; John E., our subject; Hallie (Mound), of Lima, born October 22, 1876; and Franklin D., born September 11, 1879, deceased January 10, 1881.

John E. Patterson was a babe when his

As printed in History of Allen county, Ohio and representative citizens (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.