User:Postdlf/John C. Moore

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Full bios

 * 1) Fairly complete ancestry page: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/9687055/person/6079954602?ssrc= Owner: hacallison-121959
 * 2) Full bio up until age 84, when he is retired to Kansas City:.
 * 3) Obituary The Trail: A Magazine for Colorado; Official Organ of the Society of Sons of Colorado'', VIII, #6, p.28 (1915)
 * 4) FIRST REVIEW DONE |pgNum
 * 5) FIRST REVIEW DONE
 * 6) FIRST REVIEW DONE Elmwood Cemetery "Who's Who"

"pioneer newspaper editor" - NYT obit

Early life

 * BIRTH and PARENTS

born July 21, 1830 in St. Louis (Williams 1915); born either late 1830 or 1831, based on age in NYT obit

born 1831 - Elmwood

born Born Aug. 18, 1834, Pulaski, TN, and raised in St. Louis - Allardice (2008)

father relocated in Pulaski after 1836, acc. to USBD p. 164

father Dr. John Sidney Moore (born October 5, 1807, Orange County, NC), "from an old Irish and English family"..."one of the fathers of medicine in St. Louis and the west"

mother Susan A. Morrison, native of Kentucky; father professor D. L. Morrison of Cumberland College, originally from New Jersey; married in 1829; USBD p. 165

three sisters, all still living by 1878; USBD p. 165

"His son, Colonel John C. Moore, of Kansas City, is well known throughout Missouri as a talented and sprightly newspaper writer." USBD p. 165

attended "UMO" (University of Missouri?) - Allardice (2008)
 * EDUCATION

University of Missouri at Columbia, Yale College (Williams 1915)

was a lawyer before the war (does not say in which state); Allardice (2008)
 * OCCUPATION pre-Mayor

married Pauline Harris - Allardice (2008) (location? date?); (Williams 1915)
 * MARRIAGE

Pauline daughter of Alexander L. Harris, mayor of K.C. in 1870 (Williams 1915)

in Denver
went to Colorado in 1857 - NYT obit

prospected for gold in Denver; Allardice (2008)

Elected Dec. 19, 1859, same day provisional city charter adopted (and election was contingent on that); began office Jan. 21, 1860 - King, p. 21; resigned to join Confederate Army, p. 25 (intervening pages describe violence in city and mob rule, no express role for Moore though). election date also cited in

"Because he apparently did little, and since Jefferson Territory was of dubious legality, some prefer to count" Cook as Denver's first mayor. Leonard & Noel 1990 p 486n7 - they cite to Perkin, First Hundred Years, p. 225.

apparently also elected to "Jefferson Territory" House - Stone (1918) p. 418


 * Colorado newspapers

founded "The Denver Mountaineer"; dismantled paper when civil war started - NYT obit

"On August 25, 1860, the second Denver daily appeared as The Daily and Weekly Mountaineer and owned by James T. Coleman and John C. Moore, then mayor of Denver. It was both democratic and Southern in its policy, and early in 1861 its proprietors sold out to the News and joined the Confederate army." ; p. 789

Daily Denver Mountaineer published Aug. 25, 1860-May 15, 1861

editor Pueblo Press (no dates) - Allardice (2008); possibly lived there 1880s; son Courtney born Pueblo 1888 (primary sources on Ancestry)

Daily Pueblo Press, began 1886, ended unknown -

Civil War
enlisted in Confederate Army, private in McDonald's St. Louis Battery. Made Sgt. Jan. 8, 1862. - Allardice (2008)
 * 1862 - McDonald's Battery

Elected capt. in 1862 but resigned. - Allardice (2008)

Lt. Col. E, (?) Shaler's 27th AR (Arkansas?), Aug. 28, 1862 - - Allardice (2008)
 * 1862 - 27th Arkansas

Appointed Lt. and AAG (?) on Marmaduke's staff, March 20, 1863 - Allardice (2008)
 * 1863 - ? Marmaduke chief of staff, duel

Chief of staff for both Marmaduke and Joseph O. Shelby reprint (?) of 1961 book  full view online

middle name Courtney confirmed; role in duel

story of Marmaduke duel -

"At the historic duel in which General L. M. Walker was killed by General Marmaduke, Colonel Moore was a second for the latter." - NYT obit

Made Major, Aug. 31, 1864 - Allardice (2008)

Judge advocate for Dist. of Arkansas - Allardice (2008)
 * date? Judge advocate, Arkansas

recommended for colonel by marmaduke, who called him "talented, experienced man & soldier" - Allardice (2008)
 * 1865- Colonel in Arkansas

1865 - Appointed colonel by Gen. Kirby Smith to raise troops in north Arkansas; war ended before he could organize a regiment - Allardice (2008)

end of war, learned from superior that war was lost and that he was going to surrender; Moore said "You can go head and surrender...but don't surrender me." - Elmwood

1865 - fled to Mexico - Allardice (2008)
 * 1865 - In Mexico

in Mexico, aided Gen. Shelby in 18 month campaign to help Maximillian subdue guerillas - Elmwood

wrote "Missouri" in Volume IX of Confederate Military History, edited by Clement A. Evans; also has biographical sketch (this also noted in Allardice (2008))
 * writings on Civil War

Kansas City
1865 - returned to Missouri, settling in Kansas City - Allardice (2008)

called "father of journalism in Kansas City" in Kansas City Star, Apr. 20, 1913 - Elmwood (confirm in original article)

newspaper career in Kansas City: (+ more)

1868 - came to Kansas City, borrowed $5,000 from father, started "The Kansas City Times" with B. R. Drury - Elmwood
 * Kansas City Times

Editor of Kansas City Times from 1868 to 1871 (reprint of 1954 book)  -- more throughout, whole book visible; Moore called "historian" (also  - Allardice (2008), though no dates for editorship)

first editor and one of the founders of "the old Kansas City Times" - NYT obit

1870 - "John C. Moore, Esq." purchased Kansas City Times with Charles Dougherty and John N. Edwards

started newspaper "The Mail" in K.C. - Elmwood
 * The Mail

Mail was evening Democratic paper formed by Moore spring 1875 - Miller (1881) p. 128

Mail formed 1875 to publish opposition to "movements of the water works clique"; Moore editor-in-chief - Miller (1881) p. 207

Moore became director and president in April 1876 - Miller (1881) p. 207

Nov. 22, 1877, Moore resigned, retired, and sold his stock - Miller (1881) p. 207


 * other K.C. business

part of unsuccessful effort to start Mining Stock Board to trade mining stock in K.C.; organized Jan. 19, 1878, with Moore as Secretary; failed to open that May as scheduled and effort ended before end of the year - Miller (1881) p. 184

later life, advocated deportation of blacks, as late as Aug. 27, 1910 in Kansas City Post - Elmwood
 * racist editorializing

"Colonel Moore was a famed fighting man of the old school. He had himself taken part in duels and had been a second when other men fought...One of the duels in which Colonel Moore was a principal, took place on Bloody Island, in the Mississippi River, opposite St. Louis. 'I have always been a firm believer in the duel, and at 84 years I believe in it yet,' Colonel Moore said recently." - NYT obit
 * on dueling

Death
died Oct. 27, 1915 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri at son's house - NYT (1915); Allardice (2008) agrees on date and place of death, does not state age, would've been 81 based on given 1834 birthdate
 * DEATH

buried Elmwood Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri) - Allardice (2008)