Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 609.

HENRY S. MOORE

     resides some twelve miles southeast of Olex and devotes his attention to
farming and stock-raising. He was born in Wabash county, Illinois, on May 4,
1838, the son of James and Margaret (Cummings) Moore. The former was born in
Kentucky on March 16, 1808, and died November 16, 1897, in Wasco county, Oregon,
aged eighty-nine years and eight months. The latter was born in Tennessee, in
1805, and died in 1872. They crossed the plains in 1853 and were pioneers to
Oregon.  Our subject moved to Illinois, on March 22, 1853. being then fifteen
years of age, and with his parents and six brothers and sisters, made a trip
across the plains with ox teams. They arrived in the Willamette valley on
October 29, 1853, and there engaged in stock raising and farming. Their trip
across the plains was about the same as other such journeys, except that they
ran out of provisions and were forced to slaughter some of their stock which was
very poor. For two weeks they subsisted on this fare, then met a party on the
Cascades who supplied them with flour. At the breaking out of the Rogue River
war in 1855, our subject and his father enlisted in Laben Bouy's Company and
served nine months, or until the close of the war, being honorably discharged on
July 3, 1856. Returning to the farm, our subject remained there until 1879, when
he came to Rock creek and took a preemption, timber culture, and later a
homestead. He still retains this property and has been engaged in stock raising
and farming for twenty-five years. He has done his share to build up the
country, to establish good government and to make it one of the good counties of
the great state of Oregon. He has succeeded well in his labors and has also ac
cumulated a fine property.
     On December 25, 1862, in Lane county, Oregon, Mr. Moore married Miss Hannah
Jane Miller, who was born in Indiana, on September 1, 1844. Her father, George
Miller, was a pioneer to Oregon, having crossed the plains with his wife and
children in 1847. He was born in September, 1804. His wife was Elizabeth Hyatt
who was born in 1807. Mrs. Miller was three years of age when this journey was
taken and she remembers many of the incidents, especially that the Dalles was
then only a trading post. Settlement was made near Albany, Oregon and then they
removed to Lane county, where she received her education, and in which place she
was married. The wedding occurred in the little log cabin built by her brothers
when they first came to the country. When our subject was first in Eugene it
consisted of but two houses  Mr. Moore has the following named brothers and
sisters: John, deceased; Henry, George, William, Mary J. Tilton, deceased,
Lucinda, Hanna, Elizabeth Ann Park, and Hester C. Bryant.
     In political matters Mr. Moore is a good strong Prohibitionist. He joined
the Church of Christ when he was eighteen years of age and from that time until
the present he has always labored for the spreading of the gospel and the
upbuilding of the church. He is a good man has many friends and has shown
ability and enterprise since coming here.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2010 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.