W. E. Moore

As printed in 1907

W. E. MOORE.

W\ E.:\Ioore, whose home is pleasantly situated on section 11, Highland township, was born in Louisa county, Iowa, November 23, 1866. His father. D. W. Moore, was born in Tennessee in 1843 and was brought to Iowa when nine years of age, setting in Louisa county, where he was reared to the occupation of farming, which he later followed on his own account in that county until 1883, when he came to Guthrie county. Here he settled upon section 11, Highland township, where he carried on general agricultural pursuits for live years, after which he retired from active life and removed to Indianola, where he still makes his home. He wedded Xancy Baird, a native of Ohio, and they became the parents of three sons and two daughters.

E. Moore is the only representative of the family in Guthrie county. He was educated in the graded schools of Columbus Junction, Iowa, and afterward pursued a course in Eastern Iowa Normal School. He is a graduate of the Iowa Business College at Des Moines of the class of 1886 and, remaining in Des Moines, he served for two years as deputy auditor of Polk county. He then bought one hundred and sixty acres on section 11, Highland township, a part of which was his father's old farm, to which he recently added eighty acres, now owning altogether two hundred and forty acres. Here he has since successfully carried on the cultivation of the fields and the raising of stock, making a specialty of Black Angus cattle and Poland China hogs. Both branches of his business are proving profitable and in his active management of his farming interests he is meeting with a success which numbers him among the substantial and enterprising agriculturists of the community. He brings to bear upon his work clear judgment, keen discrimination and laudable ambition and these qualities are always desirable elements in a successful business career.

On the 7th of October, 1887, Mr. Moore was married to Miss Elizabeth M. Bridson, a resident of Highland township, although a native of the Isle of Man. They became the parents of three children but lost their first born in infancy. The others are: Mable

Lucile, born September 7, 1896; and Mildred Florence, bom September 7, 1901 — just five years after the birth of her sister. In politics Mr. Moore is a republican and both he and his wife are active and earnest workers in the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has served as trustee and steward. He is well known in the county where he has long resided, having come to this section of the state when seventeen years of age, and the strong and salient characteristics of his manhood are such as have gained for him uniform good will and confidence.

As printed in Past and present of Guthrie County, Iowa : together with biographical sketches of many of its prominent and leading citizens and illustrious dead (1907). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.