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Born 1858
From The daily news' history of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo. : from the time of the Platte purchase to the end of the year 1898 : preceded by a short history of Missouri : supplemented by biographic (1898)
FRANK A. MOORE, secretary and treasurer of the Comb Printing Company, was born in Doniphan county, Kansas, Aug. n, 1858, and came to St. 'Joseph in 1864, where he attended school. For eighteen years he was a clerk with the dry goods house of Chambers & Marney, but in 1889 he united himself with the Combe Printing Co. and has displayed great, ability as a business man in his capacity of secretary and treasurer, as is shown by the wonderful growth of that institution. Mr. Moore is a Republican. He was married in June, 1883, to Miss Laura Smith.
As printed in The daily news' history of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo. : from the time of the Platte purchase to the end of the year 1898 : preceded by a short history of Missouri : supplemented by biographic (1898). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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