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Source: History of Butler County, Iowa: a record of settlement..., Volume 2 By Irving H. Hart
"WILLIAM H. MOORE.
Death called William H. Moore on the 11th of February, 1913, and in his passing Clarksville and the community mourned the loss of a representative and valued citizen. He had long been identified with agricultural interests and the way in which he managed his business affairs made one recognize the fact that the wealth of Iowa is in her soil and her strength lies in its intelligent development.
Mr. Moore was born in Schoharie County, New York. March 14,1840, and was a...
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Source: History of Butler County, Iowa: a record of settlement..., Volume 2 By Irving H. Hart
"WILLIAM H. MOORE.
Death called William H. Moore on the 11th of February, 1913, and in his passing Clarksville and the community mourned the loss of a representative and valued citizen. He had long been identified with agricultural interests and the way in which he managed his business affairs made one recognize the fact that the wealth of Iowa is in her soil and her strength lies in its intelligent development.
Mr. Moore was born in Schoharie County, New York. March 14,1840, and was a son of John and Alonsa (Turner) Moore, who spent their entire lives upon a farm in the Empire state. The paternal grandfather was a native of Holland and became the founder of the family in the new world.
John Moore was married twice, his first union being with Betsy Wickes, by whom he had three children, while by the second marriage there were five children. John Madison Moore, a brother of William H. Moore, became a resident of Butler county, as did his half-sister, Mrs. Margaret Snyder.
William H. Moore engaged in teaching school in New York and Wisconsin in early manhood and also followed the same profession in Butler County.
Leaving the Empire state in 1861, he removed westward to Wisconsin and was there residing when in 1865 he responded to the country's call for troops, enlisting in the Forty-sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which he served as a private for eight months, being on duty in Tennessee and northern Georgia.
In 1866 he arrived in this county and purchased land in Butler township, where he devoted the remainder of his active life to general farming. He had three hundred and twenty acres in his home place and although he began farming here on a small scale he was very successful, his labors being crowned with substantial prosperity as the years went by. At length he was in possession of a handsome competence sufficient to supply him with all of the comforts of life through his remaining days and at his death he left to his family a goodly competence. He retired to Clarksville in the fall of 1908 and there remained in the enjoyment of a well earned rest until called to his final home on the 11th of February, 1913.
It was on the 17th of November, 1867, that Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ann Perrin, who was born in Pennsylvania, October 20, 1847, and in the fall of 1851 came to Butler county with her parents, Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Scarber) Perrin, who were natives of England and after their marriage crossed the Atlantic to the United States, settling in Pennsylvania.
Ultimately they removed to the west and both died in Butler County, Iowa, the mother in 1865 and the father on the 26th of September, 1903. He was a farmer throughout his active business life and in his later years he also became interested in banking and was accounted one of the prominent business men of this section of the state. Since coming to Iowa with her parents in 1851 Mrs. Moore has continuously resided in this county save the second year after her marriage, when with her husband she returned to Schoharie County, New York.
About a year later, however, they again came to Iowa, where she has since lived and now for more than six decades she has been a witness of the growth and development of this section of the state.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Moore were born six children. All of the children were born in Butler county.
1. Ellena, at home
2. Delmar J., who is a member of the Waterloo Auto Supply Company at Waterloo, Iowa
3. Lizzie, the wife of H. V. Chapin, of Red Bluff, California
4. Anna Perrin, the wife of J. L. Carr, of West Plains, Missouri
5. Arthur Garfield, who is operating the home farm east of Clarksville
6. Alpha Retta, with her mother.
Mr. Moore was one of the valued representatives of the Grand Army of the Republic and delighted in meeting with his old army comrades.
In politics he was a Republican from the time that age conferred upon him the right of franchise, and he held a number of offices, the duties of which he acceptably discharged.
During the last nineteen years of his life he was a member of the Christian Church and for many years was a member and president of the church board being also an elder of the church, and his daily record was in harmony with his professions. His religion was not merely a matter of Sunday observance but guided him in all of his relations with his fellow men and made him a citizen whom to know was to respect and honor."
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