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    JOHN H. MOORE

    In the history of Miami county John H. Moore well deserves representation, for he is numbered among her native sons and has ever been a loyal and valued citizen, true to every trust reposed in him. He was born in Brown township, March 23, 1849, and is a son of William Moore, whose birth occurred in New Jersey. Reared to manhood in his native state, the father was there joined in wedlock to Miss Orr, and on emigrating to Ohio in the early '3os, he took up his abode near Addison whence he re-moved to Brown township, Miami county. There he purchased a small farm, upon which he lived until his death, passing away in August, 1881 at the ripe old age of eighty-four years. He was twice married and by the first union had two children, who are now deceased. For his second wife he chose Sidney Brooks and they became the parents of nine children. The mother of this family died, and he afterward married Mrs. Rebecca (Wiley) Belford, and has one child, Joseph, now living in Indianapolis, Indiana. His children by his second wife were William R., who enlisted, in 1861, in Company E, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with the rank of captain, and died of typhoid fever at Brandywine Station, in 1864; Susan, deceased; Thomas B., who has also passed away; Catherine, wife of Miles Mathers, of Brown township; James, who is engaged in the real estate business in Piqua; Sidney, deceased; Priscilla, wife of Elias Snodgrass, of Brown township; Elizabeth, and John H.

    Mr. Moore, of this review, was reared in Brown township until sixteen years of age, at which time he entered the Piqua high school, wherein he pursued his studies for two years. He then began clerking in a store in Fletcher, where he remained for five years. He next embarked in the produce business on his own account in that town. He was for two years a representative of its commercial interests and on the expiration of that period took up his abode on the farm, which has since been his home. He owns seventy-two acres of land on section 2, Spring Creek township, where he carries on general farming, and the neat and thrifty appearance of the place indicates the careful supervision and progressive methods of the owner. The place is improved with good buildings and well kept fences and bountiful harvests add materially to his income.

    In 1871 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Moore and Miss Mary Sanders, and they now have five children: Violet J., wife of Charles Cox; Forest E., at home; Clinton, deceased; Judson J., and Keifer S., who was named in honor of General Keifer.

    Mr. Moore has been a school director in Spring Creek township for eleven years and the cause of education finds in him a warm friend, who is active in the advocacy of every movement that will promote the advancement of the community. He is master of the Miami Grange, which indicates his standing in agricultural circles. He belongs to the Spring Creek Christian church, of which he has been a deacon since 1886, and in politics he is a Democrat.

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