Perry Moore

Moore, Eva Perry, one of the most active and influential women of St. Louis, and leader in both literary and social circles, was born July 24, 1852, in Rockford, Illinois. She was educated at Vassar College, at which institution she pursued a full mathematical and scientific course, and from which she was graduated in the class of 1873. From 1876 until 1879 she traveled and studied abroad, spending the years in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, France and England. In 1879 married Mr. Philip North Moore, and since then has resided in Colorado, Kentucky and Missouri. During the years which have elapsed since her marriage, she has traveled extensively in the United States and the Canadas, and has profited much by these educational advantages. She has been connected with and actively interested in the St. Louis Training School for Nurses and the Provident Association. She has been chairman of the committee having in charge the "District Nurse Work" from its inception, and has also been identified with the Emergency Aid of St. Louis. With the Wednesday Club, the largest woman's club in the city, she has been connected from the beginning, having served as president arid director from 1892-6. In the General Federation of Woman's Clubs she was corresponding secretary for four years, and is treasurer of the same organization at the present time. Intensely interested in the musical growth of the city, she assisted in the formation of the Musical Club, which should bring to St. Louis the very best artists in every line, and has been president of the same to the present time. In her connection with and loyalty to the larger musical organization, the Choral-Symphony Society, she stands ready to aid with her influence the promotion of the purposes of that body. She holds all educational influences of greatest importance, is president of the St. Louis branch of the Collegiate Alumnae Association, and the branch most cordially supports all efforts of the natioilal body. A woman of liberal culture and extensive information, she has wielded large influence in various 8pheres of woman's work, and is specially well known as a finished parliamentarian in assemblage of women. With quiet force and dignity she combines great executive ability, and is an effective worker in every movement with which she becomes identified.

Moore Lee, merchant, was born September 14, 1860, in Pocahontas County, Virginia. His parents were Alexander and Mary Ann (Aldridge) Moore, both of whom are yet living, making their home near Wamego, Pottawottomie County, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the Confederate Army during the early part of the Civil War, but was soon invalided. The son, Lee Moore, received instruction in the public schools of Kansas, to which State his parents removed in 1869, for a brief period. Soon after reaching their new home they became disease-stricken, the effects of non-acclimatization, and Lee, at the tender age of eleven years, was obliged to suspend his studies in order to care for them and carry on the farm. Meantime he made diligent use of his night hours in reading to supply the deficiencies of his education. After he had reached the age of twenty-one years he studied for two months in a business college in Topeka, Kansas, and this completed the preparation afforded him for his work in the world. For eleven months he was employed in a grocery house in Wamego at $n a month, then returning to the home farm, where he remained for a year and succeeded in establishing his parents comfortably. Going back to Wamego at the end of that time, he took a situation in the dry goods store of P. S. Robinson, where he remained for several years. For the first year his wages were $7 a month, and he saved a little money out of this meagre sum. The second year he received $25 a month, and finally an advance to $85. While in this establishment he gained a clear insight into business methods, and became a skilled judge of goods in the various lines handled, and to this experience he considers himself largely indebted for the success achieved by him in later years. He ceased to be an employe when he became a member of the firm of S. H. Jackson & Co., which purchased the business of this house, he taking a one-half interest, the firm name being changed to Pierce & Moore. Two years afterward he sold his interest to Ms partner and removed to Joplin. In 1890 he opened his store near the site of his present f ' t s Ii.

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Moore Austin R., who has been interested in the Mississippi River trade for more than half a century, was born in Clay County, Missouri, July 6, 1832, son of David D. and Rebecca C. Moore, both of whom were natives of Kentucky. His mother and her family were among the earliest emigrants from the East to Missouri, their coming to this region dating back to the early days of keelboats, on one of which they made the river voyage necessary to carry them to their destination, landing each evening to prepare meals and go into camp for the night. Reared in what was then a new and sparsely settled country, Austin R. Moore obtained a limited education at a primitive log schoolhouse near his home, at Liberty,

Missouri, his school days ending when he was thirteen years old. He came with his father's family to St. Louis in 1845, s life on the river began soon afterward. He was a junior clerk on the river steamer which carried the first quartermaster's supidies to Fort Leavenworth, to be forwarded from there across the plains to the United States troops in Mexico, along with the expedition commanded by Colonel A. W. Doniphan. After discharging this cargo of supplies the steamer returned to St. Louis, and proceeded to Alton, Illinois, where she took aboard the First Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, destined for the same seat of war, and forwarded to the scene of action by way of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. During the years immediately following, the subject of this sketch continued in the river service,being promoted from time to time until he became master of a steamboat. During the early part of the Civil War he was in command of a steamer owned in St. Louis, but detained within the Confederate lines by the blockade at Memphis, Tennessee. This steamer was the last to pass south beyond Cairo before the Federal blockade was established at that point, and Captain Moore enjoyed the unique distinction of paying what was, perhaps, the only import duty ever collected by the Confederate government. Tennessee had not yet seceded from the Union, and the Confederates had established a port of entry at the dividing line between that State and Mississippi. When the steamer reached this point on her downward trip the Confederate authorities hailed her, came on board and examined her bills of lading, and compelled the captain to pay duties on all the goods in her cargo pronounced dutiable. Within a day or two thereafter Tennessee seceded, and the customhouse on the border line was abolished. About the same time the Federal government prohibited the passage of steamers to the South, and no other river craft had a repetition of the experience of Captain Moore's vessel in the way of paying Confederate taxes. On her return voyage from New Orleans the steamer was detained, as already stated, by the Confederates, and pressed into service. Captain Moore received a commission as commander of his vessel from the Confederate authorities at New Orleans, and continued under their control and direction until the Federal military authorities obtained control of the river and opened it to navigation. He then returned with his vessel to St. Louis, was commissioned by the Federal authorities as commander of a transport boat, and engaged at. once in the transportation of troops and military supplies. He was engaged in this service to the end of the war, and had many interesting, and not a few perilous, experiences during the war period. Since the war his connection with the river interests has been continuous, and the range of his experience has been such that he is a recognized authority on all matters pertaining to river navigation, transportation and commerce. He has long been interested in the St. Louis & Mississippi Valley Transportation Company, and has been connected officially with that corporation for nearly thirty years, serving at different times as secretary, vice president and treasurer. For many years he was president of the Steamboat Clerks' Association, an institution founded and maintained exclusively for social and benevolent purposes, being annually re-elected to the presidency during the entire lifetime of the organization. Captain Moore is one of the surviving pioneers who were identified with steamboating on the Mississippi in its palmiest days, and he has had an interesting and varied experience, rich in incident and reminiscences. It is two years more than half a century since he began life on the river, and in the course of these years he has gathered his full share of the honors and emoluments to which his faithful and efficient services have entitled him. For forty years he has been a member of the Masonic order in St. Louis, and he has held various offices and taken a prominent part in building up what is the leading lodge, in point of membership, in the State of Missk)uri. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and for thirty years has been a church official. He was married, in 1856, to Miss Margaret E. Sheckley, who was born in Pennsylvania, and still lives to comfort her husband in his declining years. Their children are one son, Milton J. Moore, and one daughter, Emma Moore Kirschbaum.

As printed in Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.