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l~~n.!-4 nnti ~~ ll · ~ •• ;_tt .,...,n •.. n .. ~~ Osbornt' . To thl!-1 unt,,n nnh l'·n·· said: "iud~~- :;,; .· 1~: ~;{;·ore~ ·~·· ~-r~ri;~-~~~ r.hlltt' was ~or n, · Lncfl t'. :u!:" . ·' ·· Trw · ~· ent citizen anrt a lawyer. dlPd at 1 dea~h of t htH youn~ pt.•r:-:<)Il b a :;ad I k o·clock this morn in~; at his . residt>nce ntTatr. but deatl"t is no rt'Slh'('tl'r Pf l ~ in this city, from infirmlti{>s · fnc!dent pers:Jng and at t_h!s timt.' took thP I to o.ld age, he being 78 .n·ars of HaP. deai 1;st obj~.:-ct nt th» :~"..!!'!g ;;;t;"- B ~ · . . . ~ • • .. • -: .~ t h~...-..ri c: .,w,...,.. .. :,...,.... ~' - . .. . .. . _ "",L..t<:; 0.1i' ~.U/5~.'lUtolH!' Ill!' Ol3l\l0E'.r8.J \-)!111 -···--" •·•••'-'-~''-'u. !Ut lldl:lal \\R~ j ~r; ~ given later. " Two childrPn of ) 1r. hf'ld Tuesday .. Au~ 2, 1:11o. at tbt'' Moore died prior to tb dPmlse: )1rs. ~~lc~ c~ur'h. In ... Shambaugh t>: lJt> Y. , Sattie Bruce of Kan~a:> . . City, aud [ ,\ · ·~- ~elk~· S!H· lPR\t>~ tn 1111.fhrn ; Floyd Moore of Fort Worth. TPx . P.t•th l~+>r u1tm1•·ly dPa'h. a lut .... hRn d. •>n•· -

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. . accldentaHy killed at Fort 1Vorth . .s!stas ltnd fuur txro'thf•r:-:. bt•!:lld··:-; a j I · Sbrviving Mr. :\toon· a'i"t· hi~ ;ddow, ~lum?t~r Dt T~'-'!ath·eg an~. S! nq.Ja\hi7· . t : Mrs. Nellie .T. :'>!oon·. anp · son, Bruce mg tnend:-;. ~h e was l:lld tn rt·~r in ~ t : Moor~. at Fort Wortb . and dau~htt>r ~he. lta•;!s c~>rnctrry. Th•· t~t~rt':t\ t'd i r : u o r-t ' to .... , ~ 1 .... '- .... ~ . - ... , ~ n· t l t- • I ,....rt;. o,J. ~ . ~.fcPht~iTiu, 0~ KaD!'R:-; Clt\',1·:--·~ .... un ,.. tue ~) lpa IY 0 tl1•' t•n- n: The late Mr. ?,Joon· wa~ bern in Qhi;). tlre C0 mmnnity. ~ -He came to Iowa in 18:.7; taught I t l· 8ebool near Ott'llmw:1 that winter and JudJtf' li<-Phf"r!'oD•!'I Rrotbt'r Ht-Bd. ! !! • r~d law. H•! was admitt(>d t~ tlw Ht:·d Oak Sun, .Tuly 2!1 : .Tud,~·~ Smit h : ~r, b{lr, then went to Bt:dforo ahout · 1S~·8; McPhE:'rson ardf·d homt:· \YPdn•· sdaY n :

, 1¥ the fall of lS:iS or tb•· sprln~ of from Indianapolis. lnd., whPrt-> h·· wa~" ci 1~59 be ca'!Ile to Clarinda. He wa:-; callc"<.l on Friday hy new::- of th t• dt•ath ti ~nee county jud~·: of Pagt- count y. of hi~ br0ther. Cart:·y ~I<"Pher~on. ·On- I t•.' f\e was clectc·d ~tat•· ~:>enator from ly a wet"k ~fon: Judg·· . ~icPlwr~··m I fc t~ senatorial di:-;trk~ in whkh t>a;;•' h~d ~ODi' to :'-.'iapi.ra. Ontario. Can. tn l t1: ~unt:r was locatec. in 1~67 . and accompany hi:' brorh~·r . \\'ho w•1s takt' ll · th ~rved as ru».yor of e1ar!nda from ~Prit")usly ~lck whil·~ th•·r ... on a irip. ar 1881 to lxx:-,. It·· ··~taldisb.·d tb· tlr ·t to bi~ l:ow •· !!'! TrldiallaJ >r>l i-.. H: Mnk in Pag r· ('•J tl nt ·• in (' i:t ri ur!a (lf

·3oout ·1~66. and \\a:,·:; lllt-:llh t·:· of tht:~~OLIHJ-:H FHO'l' ('OR'l'-; L[f 1 L · a~ b "nk!nrr t; r· 'I ~'- \' 1 " · · ' n ' .r: ll. r·c··

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ty bank. now ill·· f"-1...:·· ('n•:n·., ~ tat-· Hl<- httht·r. lH!

bank. \Ir . .\TIItl rr • l·<· CL, r ir;d:l fr .>r Fort \\'orth. Tt'X .. :t: ), ··~!f 1:--'"· H·· \',·a ...

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THE STATE 011~ IOWA, BEING

A COMPLETE CIVIL, POLITIUAL AND MILITARY HISTORY OF THE STATE,

FROM ITS FIRST EXPLORATION DOWN TO 1875;

INCLUDING

A CYCLOP1EDIA OF LEGISLATION DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF EACH OF THE GOVER~ORS, FROM LUCAS (18&;) TO CARPENTER; WITH HISTORICAL A~D

DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES OF EACH COUNTY IN THE STATE SEPA· RATELY, EMBRACING INTERESTING NARRATIVES OF PIO·

NEER LIFE; INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE COlli· MERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCA·

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the age ,,f twenty f, •U r, he " ·as mar- 1 the phcc ofh is birth , nml Wfl~ eclucated ri• .; tu )l i-s Slt,-an Fn, amlin the fllll at thP Ohio \y,,:;\eyau l·niYersity, of 1:;88. r emu,·ed \Yith ·his father-in -law at Delnware:. Hi• ht':llth fai lin g him and fam ily to Jolmsun county, Imva. bef,m: cnmple\ iP g a c•Jlkgin.te c~mrse, '\I r. Bonham was fnreman of the first he entered aeth eh· i.Ho agricultural grnucl jury that sat in Iowa City. He pursuit~. Inli:i33.he: remo,-'e<l t•) I owa, sc·n et.l hr several years as just ice of aucl first settled at E Lhh·ville Here th•c \""a ce, nncl also as town clerk, in he rf:ad law in the ot11cc ·uf H omer L -,,-1J,;: wa' then kn•)Wl1 as ''Old '!ILm's Ives, Es<}, au(\ "· as admitted to the ( •:c•·k precinct." Ht: was a f'andi(htte bar at A lbi a, :Jlonroe cnnut_y, in June, f'· ,,. ·~l'k!.!;nte to the fir>' t coustitutinual 1850; remo>etl to Bedford, T.<: \err

.,,-, cut1uc1, au<l cltft7~tted i r\' thirteen c onnty, in Sept .. 185'7, ancl cowmenred · ... -,,,_, \\:~s alsu a L·nml i·' ·,[(· fur the the practice ot hts pnrfrsc; i•lll. :md iu re nitorial legblature, aml l!:featecl by l Sept., 1tlGO, r emow,J to C'larintla, Png~ ,1 'mall \'<>tc. \Vas E'leck<l to th~ tt:r- . county, where he has ;;iuce resitlr:d rit·-riallcgi;,lt>tnre iu 1Sclol3. The ter- : In Jniy, 18136. he established the hankTi•· ·r:: ilaviug· been H•.lmitted into the 1 ing house of }fnore aucl }fclntyre, ,,,._;, ,n as f! st:<te. ::'>Ir. B••nham •sa,; ' an•l snce,:ecled t1H:m as sok prr•prietnr P ·v•:te·l '' member ! rum the .Ji-iric; i in '\h\·, 1-':"ii . Iu An!!:tht, 1::>7:2. \H· ,;r. c >lilJl·."•Sc•l uf' tl1e C<'uutic:-; of .J,t]\llson ! gauizetl 111<' First :\7lt ional B :tnk nf ~ ll•l l•J\I'it, t\J the 11rst gennf\l :h'em-1 Ch;rimla, anJ was pres' 2nt .Jf tile ·(;>. ·, 1n ·J a!scr 'nts r>\t·ctl·•l t'r• •m !ll<• ; ,;atl20 until .Jul1· 1. 1:;75, "-hen h~ re_ ... ; .i: ~·· .j ~:3n·ie.t to t}P: St'cnnrl ~t ·l!:t~ ge t.1 ~ : ~i-:rnctl in ordei· tt · deYnk hi s tin1r to , ' '' "o' m>,]y At th•· ml'eting •>(\!Ji, hG< pr•:•f••ssion lup.\itic-; .\Ir.:II,ore '" • '', lle _,.,-,_,; c:_hn,,en 'P,'·: :tl;~r •·t' thP i'-, :1. p;pnblit;· ,u. •:,ucl .'\'<b ••l•:<"· ' c<l by '-' ·;-: ' L'l 'l. rc·•-~•:!,·e: l e re:<.!~. !•1r b:·m~· ht< party,_, ?~ 'tm:;.- JULlhr> .,f p,,ge

: l·i~ 'tl\<\ 1\h("ll'li:l\_l' r ,b td'll:,:'ilrt\CC:l' . ~C<>l.ll:t.:~, iU,JC'IJi,;'•l': :l :, ·,1_hP ot ilt r; •t:t:~Lte, .\.f:•.-1 : ;~:,d•·uu: ••r 111 \ lt '· y, a•·s 1::. tll )·)''• rl •· •- " m•• :nlJ•:l· •·f rn• ' .'-!.E . . ] -L• c .<1 < •:< •HHIY. _\l ,· B .. ui"litlt'>, in tll•: Church :<nd :Ht :h· l.il~ ·x<Jrkt:r in \[;,, , , ,, .i 'E , .[ 1'3iil. r•.'lll<)\ 'C-.1 ,.- , Cl:w:zp church. <\.1•' ._.,-.,ll_ kno•l'l' ill I he- 3 \ :lt~ a.,q

'·''' ,-_ L·'''"· \\·here he nl p n·,t:nt r0-. au adiv·.· S:d•l>:ttll - ell -,,,i mcll.l H e is · · ~ · i ·-: r'~-~~~~\d n!!: tLt H"(·C<i : ;t)n ~~ r a · !'f!C (•i!:nizc·tl t111'()\1!;,!ho'.lt the -..tate a~ a t:.(:·:11' . . l'1 187:3. he \\;1-3 d~:cte:d c1n . l(l;.llfug tlulu;c\er;u-~d ;·dJh lawyer. tltv a:,d-nlu nup11ly tickc·t to represr-nt ; Ci;,rli." c••unty in the 15th gl'neral i Georg" L Brook;;. :Jir. Br•JOh' -.as ,>,em~;\\' . He"'"" a nH;llllJL'l' of t\Je , born at L ,nyrc-clce. )b-;:3, S<·ptemlJer ra i ' - ·, ,,_]' c• rmmittee ·.luring tlib se'isi<rn ' :;~, 18-±8. '1\.lltrn he -o:as four years ,-,( .[' •::r· l ·.-gi>hllnre. at.tl tni)k :1 very '!C: - age, his parent> remOY<'d to Philad<=l-

~i >c' i-,u: in i1s l:tb<l\'6. wh ich resn lcP!l pbia, >lillllhrc:e yt'ars la;er tn tl1e state ,,, ,1J: pa;osage <.'t' 1l1c present rail road of Iowa. settling o:1 a rnrm n<·1tr Im\e·:·c·'· n tlw ;tat,. rol' Tu 'c:'\l ~I r . Bnn- penclence. in BuclHllHlll cnunty. At ;,, -, , L c ttlC'mt•er l)f ti:e chnl'rh L•f tlw .\gc of 18 he C• ·mmcnc•·t: schor:l r·: td~···Yn ill St'rm•: ;,,.,·. ali<.ic- as kac:hinf!:. 'iVllt:'n '2fllli sfatlle r lt>l'ehill1 , . l.ll]•\tdii'''· H•: is a nwlllb<'r of. "lli:'tirue," all<l\,- l th~l-'iinhi.~p·ck"; · _~ :IP ""l'l"'' ' _,·" :·ku · in, the order of et he '>!artc::1 " ut in the >Y•n·id . :\L•. r l':~c '" "';, ,[' I-Iu;;ban<lr ,:. Hllll i~ tll"""" spending <>:' f:l' tl nv•uth> in l11i•:•,;s. r·.·.,J:, 1• , shin~l a hll·C<., IYiril any oiJc Indiana. an•.l E:r·ntu•·k,- :,e r•etnrnrcl 10 -.,'t' •. p]• ' " ' , ti l•· co:r:tn~· · r• ~;1ncc }[r Iwlepemlcnr t· :.u•l er\ga;ell in ho"k ;; ·i'l'• ' •• !J C' P 1nl· ·· , -1 t\i _,-]1., ,.,. hMl kr·epiug. In l'-~1 . lt1\'. in :; :(l'quirc·d a •,_,., .. , "' tlv·m nine cllilpren, and all! f•:w l :nmln-,\ ·l·:li"r' :" lli ' ''-"'Y· ·n" rer •'·'"'\ " ·i tl>'•ut :\ clc. •Clll r',: \JilL H e is' m•r1'<:L1 t,. C. ;·ni<Jf!:. Ad:tm., c•-,untY,

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Tn r855 he was appointed prosecuting attorney, and th e next year was elected by the people; was county judge for nine consecu tive years, commencing on the rst of Jan uary, r8Gr; during the same period was county recorde r four years, and after going out of the latter office was county auditor

. three years . Few men in Dall as county have held more offices than J uoge Perkins, aod none have discharged their duties better or to the more complete satisfact ion of their constituents.

The . jud ~e was originally a whig, imbibing antislavery sentiments from his father, who was a Quaker. Naturally, on the demise of the whig party, he joined the republican . He has bee n the recipient of all his official honors at the hands of the latter party, but .the vote he rece ived was not always limited to his party. H e is 1•e ry mu ch respected in the county.

The religious views of the judge are liberaL He is a Royal Arch Mason.

His wife, who was Miss Eliza Kennedy, a native of Richmond, Indiana, became such on · the 4th of February, 1841. She died on the 6th of April, 1876, leaving seven children, and five had preceded her into the other world. Mary Lorette is the wife·of Dr. Lee Kenworthy, a dentist, of Saint Helena, California; Jeremiah A. has a family, and lives, in Fre ... mont, Nebraska. The others are single.

] ndge Perkins has a commanding appearance.· He stands six fee t in his stockings, and weighs two hundred and forty pounds. He has brown hazel eyes, a florid complexion, easy and graceful manners, a cordial address, a cheerful disposition, and good soctal q.ualities. He has, in every respect, the polish of a ge ntleman.

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HON. NAPOLEON B. MOORE,

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W E claim for this biography the careful peru sal of e1·e ry young man into whose hands this

volume may fall. In th e career of Mr . Moore may be learned as great a lesson in energy, tact and discrimination as has, perhaps, fall en to the lot of any of the many self-made men whose biographi es we have published . He was horn on the 7th of Septe'mher, r R.F, at Lond on, Madison county, Ohio. His fath er's name was Stephen Moore, who was born in Virginia and settled in London in 1 8o8 with his brother John, and Stephen built and opened the first storehouse in Madison cou nty, so that he was, ind eed, an original settler in that part of Ohio.

He married 1\1 iss Heste r Dungan, who was born in Pennsylvania, bnt move d with her parents to Ohio ~t a very early day.

Mr. Stephen 1\Ioore continued in commercial business most of the time he resided in Ohio, during which time he filled the office of sheriff and county · treasurer.

Napoleon Bonaparte Moore, from the age of eight years, was hronp:ht up in his father's dry-goods store until he was fourteen years of :~ge, when he went to school at the Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where he remained till he was eighteen, when his health began to fail him, and he went upon a fa rm ncar l .on don, where h e became interested in stock raisinp:, and remained till about twenty-one,

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When nineteen years old he married Miss B. W. Webster, daughter of a prominent Methodist minister of the C incinnati conference.

Partially restored to. health, he left the farm and went int o mercantile pursuits at Charleston, Ohio, 11·he re he remained in business until the fall of 1855 · H ere he had prospered in business, but through finan ci~ l ai d extended to others he became greatly involved, to an extent of a t least ten thousand dol

lars; so again failing in health and ruined in finances he came to Iowa and settled at Eddyville, on the Des Moines river, where h e and his wife taught the district sch ool, and he began the study of law, and in two yea rs was admitted to the bar, when he left Eddyville and settled at Bedford, Taylor county, Iowa.

Teaching school at Eddyville simply produced enough of an income to supply a most frugal subsistence for himself and family, so that when he had determined to remove to Bedford he prospecte(! the place b efore removal of his family. · He owned no horse, could get no conveyance and had to walk the three hunored miles there and back. Having determined upon the removal, a wagon was obtained, into which he put all his worldly effects, including his wife and one child, and commending himself to the care of an a ll-wise Providence, he commenced the jonrney of one hunoreo and fifty miles. -The little girl of fuur years ·was ailing when they st11.rted, and


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died when they were seven d ays out, but the moth e r kept it \]ntil they reached Bedford, where Mr. Moore and his father dug a grave and gave it burial.

He remained in Bedford, practicing law, until .September, x86o, with great success, commencing life as .it were anew. He · had two dollars and a half in money and owed ten thousand dollars.

Our subject removed to Clarinda in 186o, continu

ing the practice of law. In the fall of x861 he was elected county judge, which office he fill ed for four years. In the fall or" I86s he established the first banking house in southwestern Iowa. In r866 he was elected state senator, and while serving on the judiciary committee framed· the bill relative to the present circuit court system, and was among the most earnest supporters of the plan for the e rect ion of the present state capitol building a t Des Moines, JVhich justly ranks among the grandest architecturnl piles on this continent. In 1871 he established the First National Bank of Clarinda. In 1867 he com-

. pleted the payment of the ten thousand dollars in

debtedness imposed upon him in Ohio . In 1872 he established· the banking house of Moore and Webster, at Shenandoah, which is now known as the First National Bank of that place, and also established the banking house of Crum, Moore and Van Fl ee t, at Bedford, in January, 1873, now succeeded by the Bedford Bank.

In 1867, his health again failing him, the result o f too close confinement to sedentary labor, he so ught relaxation in a diversion of body and mind, and conceived the idea of a stock farm in lieu of stock hank s, and he bought a farm of one thousand acres si tu ated ten miles south of Clarinda. This farm seems to have been a favorite matter of concern to him, for

he has continuously developed it, f-eeding from one to three hundred cattle annually thereon . From 1865 to 187o he bought cheap lands in southern Iowa, and owns now about nine thousand acres, two thousand of which are improved.

Amid all this busy business life Mr. Moore has ever been a strong devotee to his chur~h. Since 1862 he has had charge of t11e Sabbath school, excepting only two years of absence. He has to-day one hundred and twenty-eight young men and women in his ciass. He was a member of the general conference of the Methodist church which met at Baltimore in May, 1876.

He has heen an active Mason; has tnken thirtytwo degrees since x859, and is now prelate to the command ery here.

Since the age of nineteen he has had the aid and solace of an intelligent and devoted wife, self-sacrificing in the extreme in their hours of deepest trouble, and worthily wearing the mantle of her hu sband's ultimate financial prosperity. A devoted christian woman, she has lived a life of ben evolen ce, of service to he r church and to humanity. Mrs. Moore, too, has taken d eep interest in the cause of temperance, and is a t present president of the Woman's Church Temperance Association of Iowa. The lady, at her personal expense, employed the famou s temperance ora tor, Francis Murphy, for a three months' campaign in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have had born to them two boys and four girls . The two boys and two of the girls have been taken away.

Mr. N . B. l\1oore may be summed up in all truthfulness as a thorough business man, governed in his every ar.tion toward his fellow-m en by all the graces of a prnctical christian gentleman.

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H ARVEY POTTER, a n a tive of Lewis county, New York, was born at Turin on the 17th of

July, 1834. His father, Chester Potter, was a stonemason in early life, and a farmer in his later years . His mother was Dinah Miller, of English and Iri sh pedigree. The Potters were wholly English. The paternal grandfather of Harvey was in the first war with the mother country; his father in the second.

Chester Potter moved with his family to Illinois when Harvey was four years old, settling on a farm

near Somonauk, IJe Kalb county, where the son assis ted his fath er until twenty years of age. H e then 1epaired to Wh ea ton, twenty-five miles west of Chi

cago; spent six years in preparing for and going through the coll ege at that place, graduating on the 4th of July, 186o. H e attended the law department of the University of Chicago, and graduated in 1862 with the degree of LL.B. In I 864 he received the degree of A.M. from his Alma Mater.

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Name: Nopoleon B Moore [Nall.oleon B Moore]

Birth Year: abt 1833

Birth Place: Ohio

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Marital Status: Married

Census Date: 1885

Residence state: Iowa

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Family Number: 126

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Household Name Age Members: Napoleon B Moore 52

Nettie J Moore 25 Jerz L Moore 3 Hester Moore 74 William Anderson 25 Sophia Anderson 26

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Stephen Moore 1801-1883

Mary Morrison (Hester! Gray I , 1812-1855

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Verlinda M Webster 1827-1894

Willie Laurie Moore 1852-1855

Emma Edith Moore 1853-1857

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Sarah Moore 1860-1894

Willis Moore 1863-1864

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