User:Postdlf/John C. Moore

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: Williams, Walter, ed. (1915), A History of Northwest Missouri, Volume 2, Lewis Publishing Company, p. 958. [1]
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 "Col. John C. Moore Dies. Pioneer Editor Who Was a Firm believer in the Duel.", The New York Times, October 28, 1915 [2]
5. FIRST REVIEW DONE Allardice, Bruce S. (2008), Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register, University of Missouri Press, p. 278, ISBN 978-0826218094
6. FIRST REVIEW DONE Elmwood Cemetery "Who's Who" [3]

"pioneer newspaper editor" - NYT obit

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" The United States Biographical Dictionary, Missouri Volume, United States Biographical Publishing Company, 1878, p. 164

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

EDUCATION

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

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

OCCUPATION pre-Mayor

was a lawyer before the war (does not say in which state); Allardice (2008)

MARRIAGE

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

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

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). King, Clyde Lyndon (1911), The History of the Government of Denver with Special Reference to its Relations with Public Service Corporations, Denver, Colorado: The Fisher Book Company [4] election date also cited in Leonard, Stephen J.; Noel, Thomas J. (1990), Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis, University Press of Colorado, p. 486 n.7, ISBN 0-87081-185-1

"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." Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1918), History of Colorado, Volume 1, S. J. Clarke; p. 789 [5]

Daily Denver Mountaineer published Aug. 25, 1860-May 15, 1861 (National Endowment for the Humanities; Library of Congress, "About Daily Denver mountaineer. (Denver, Colo. Terr. [Colo.]) 1860-1861", Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress)

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 - (National Endowment for the Humanities; Library of Congress, "About The Daily Pueblo press. (Pueblo, Colo.) 1886-????", Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress)

1862 - McDonald's Battery

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

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

1862 - 27th Arkansas

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

1863 - ? Marmaduke chief of staff, duel

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

Chief of staff for both Marmaduke and Joseph O. Shelby Oates, Stephen B. (2010), Confederate Cavalry West of the River, University of Texas Press, p. 192 reprint (?) of 1961 book [6] full view online

middle name Courtney confirmed; role in duel Trimpi, Helen P. (2010), Crimson Confederates: Harvard Men who Fought for the South, University of Tennessee Press[7]

story of Marmaduke duel - Edwards, John Newman (1867), Shelby and His Men: Or, The War in the West, Miami Printing and Publishing Company, p. 182 [8]

"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)

date? Judge advocate, Arkansas

Judge advocate for Dist. of Arkansas - Allardice (2008)

1865- Colonel in Arkansas

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

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 - In Mexico

1865 - fled to Mexico - Allardice (2008)

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

writings on Civil War

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

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: Miller, William H. (1881), The History of Kansas City, Birdsall & Miller, p. 207 (+ more) [9]

Kansas City Times

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

Editor of Kansas City Times from 1868 to 1871 O'Flaherty, Daniel (2000), General Jo Shelby: Undefeated Rebel, UNC Press Books, p. 420 (reprint of 1954 book) [10] -- 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 The United States Biographical Dictionary, Missouri Volume, United States Biographical Publishing Company, 1878, p. 186

The Mail

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

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

racist editorializing

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

on dueling

"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

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

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