Wallace M. Moore

As printed in 1901

WALLACE M. MOORE.

Wallace M. Moore, an honored veteran of the Civil war, and the present popular postmaster of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, was born in Charleston, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1 84 1, a son of Henry N. and Mary Phftbe (Dartt) Moore. The father was a printer and school teacher and also a preacher, having been ordained a Methodist minister by Bishop Soule. For some years prior to his death he resided with our subject in Mt. Vernon, where he died in 1894, at the age of sixty-three years. His widow is still living at the age of eighty-six and makes her home with a daughter in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Our subject grew to manhood at his place of birth and received his early education in its district schools. On laying as'de his text books he worked on a farm in the neighborhood until the breaking out of the Civil war. He was one of the first to offer his services to his country in her hour of peril, enlisting at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1861, just ten days after Fort Sumter was fired upon. He became a member of Company E, First Pennsylvania Rifles, afterward known as the Bucktail regiment, which belonged to the Army of the Potomac. He was taken prisoner at Mechanicsville, Virginia, during the seven day's battle of the Peninsula, and was first sent to Richmond and later to Belle Isle, being held from June 26, 1862, until the 5th of August, when he was exchanged and rejoined his company at Harrison's Landing on the James river. Mr. Moore participated in the following battles: Drainsville. second battle of Bull Run. South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Mine Run, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania Court House. During the last named engagement he was wounded and was confined in the hospital for two months, and later, on the 19th of August, 1864, at the battle of Weldon Railroad, near Petersburg, he lost his right arm, and was in hospital until the 28th of June, 1865, when he was finally discharged.

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On first coming west in 1872. Mr. Moore located in Sibley, Iowa, where he served as county auditor for five terms of two years each, and was also engaged in the real estate and insurance business for two years. In 1886 he came to Sh. Vernon, where he has shine made his home, and during his residence here has served as assessor si.x years and clerk of Franklin township the same length of time. On the 16th of March, 1898, he was appointed postmaster under President McKinley, and is now discharging the duties of that office in a most capable and satisfactory manner. Politically he has always been identified with the Republican party, and socially affiliates with the Odd Fellows lodge, and Washington Camp, No. iiC). SI. W. A., of which he is venerable consul. He was one of the organizers and charter members of L. G. Ireland Post, No. 1 18. G. A. R., of Sibley, of which he was adjutant, and on his removal to Mt. \''vernon transferred his membership to C. Dimmick Post, No. 400, of which he is now ([quartermaster. He was elected representative to the National Encampment at

Buffalo in 1897 from the fifth congressional district of Iowa. On the 8th of August, 1885, he was appointed aide-de-camp by S. S. Burdett, commander-in-chief, and in 1893 was appointed assistant mustering officer in the fifth congressional district. Religiously Mr. Moore is a member of the Methodist church. In years of peace, no less than in those of war, he has bravely performed the duties which have devolved upon him. and is justly entitled to a place on the nation's roll of honor.

As printed in Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.