Louisiana AHGP
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James W. Moore
James W. Moore. This, in brief, is the sketch of a man who so present substantial position in life has been reached entirely through his own perseverance and the facts connected with his operations and their results only show what a person with courage and enlightened views can accomplish. His reputation for honesty and integrity has been tried and not found wanting; his financial ability has been more than once put to the test, but never without, credit to himself. His general mercantile establishment comprises a neat and well-selected stock of goods, and besides this he has an excellent plantation of 283 acres, seventy-five acres of which are good tillable land.
Mr. Moore was born in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, July 15,
1858, being the sixth of seven children, six sons and a
daughter: Perry (who is married and is a merchant of Claiborne
Parish), John T. (deceased), Mollie (wife of J. P. Cox, a
planter and lumberman of Bienville Parish), Charles (a merchant
of Homer), James W., William (who resides in Homer), and a baby
boy that died in infancy. The parents of these children were
born in Georgia, the father being a planter and dying there at
the age of fifty years, his widow still surviving him. James W.
Moore, educated in the schools of Lisbon, has ever been the
patron of educational institutions of all kinds. He started out
for himself a poor boy, but as has been seen, he has been
successful, and his present prosperity he owes to his own
indomitable will and energy.
Miss Fannie Ragan became his wife in 1886. Her birth occurred in
Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, in 1868, and her education was
obtained in the common schools. To her union with Mr. Moore two
children have been born: Lois (aged two and one-half years) and
Gertrude (aged eleven months). Mr. Moore is a Democrat, and he
and wife are worthy and earnest members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Lisbon, Louisiana, and both are workers in
the Sunday-school.
Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890
