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Samuel Moore, farmer and owner o the Moore coal shaft, was born in the North of Ireland, 40 miles from Belfast, County Armaugh. Ireland, in 1827, where he attended school until 10 years of age when he hired to a famer seven years; the went to Erdie, 10 miles from Glasgow, Scotland, and worked in the iron and cpper mines until his marriage here to Miss Ann E. Finnigan in 1844, and in 1848 they came to the United States, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he worked in the iron, lead, and copper mines in Lancashire County, Berks ounty and Bayerstown, PA.,some four or five years when he came to Iowa and settled in Scott County; mined here in Buffalo Township in Capt.Murray's mine six months, and for Capt.W.L. Clark and Capt. Le Roy Dodge two and a half years; the for Mr. Posten one year when he bought 20 acres of ground in section 9,Buffalo Township, where he sank a shaft and opened "the Moore Coal Bank," which he still owns, and where he now owns a farm of 60 acres, most of all under good cultivation. HHe and wife had afmily of nine children, eight living, viz. William who married Mary A. Armstrong, they reside in Osage County Kansas.; Mary married Hugh Brown, they reside in Hampton Ill., as does Anna; who married Daviv Peacock; Lily, who married Levi Clark; James who married Louisa Simmons; and Emma, who married Elwood Clark; Samuel and Frank reside on the farm with their father. Mrs.Moore died in 1867. She was a member of the Episcopal church. Mr. Moore afterward Married Angeline Simmons( sister of Louisa) in 1870. She was born in Indiana the Daughter of Jeremiah and Margaret (Deford ) Simmons. The fruit of this marriage is two children Addie W. and Charles Moore. He and wife are members of the Christian church. The prents of Samuel Moore were Wiliam Moore and Elizabeth, nee Grozett; they were natives of Ireland, but of Scotch descent. He and wife were members of the old school Presbyterian church and had a family of five children, three living. The subject of his sketch, Samuel Moore, is one of the representative men of Scott County, and one of the first coal men in Iowa. In politics he is a strong Prohibitionist and has held various local offices of trust in his township.
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