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. 677.
 
WILLIAM SETH MOORE

     is a stockman residing about six miles east from Fossil, where he owns a
quarter section of good land and handles about one hundred or more cattle.  He
was born in Missouri, on July 16, 1847, the son of  Joshua and Elmira (Yale)
Moore. The father started to drive across the plains with ox teams in 1852 and
died before he reached his destination. The mother, a native of Ohio, was a
school teacher before she was married, that event occurring when she was
twenty-five years of age. When her husband died, she brought the family across
the plains to Oregon City and her death occurred in 1894. Our subject was with
the family when they crossed the plains and, in addition to his father dying,
his brother also died at The Dalles. From that point they went down the river to
the locks and then took steamer to Oregon City, where they remained about a
year. There the mother married. George Tillotson, a millwright. The next move
was to Linn county, and a year later they went on to Polk county, where Mr.
Tillotson took a preemption. This was their home for six years and then the
family went to Dallas, where our subject remained until he was twenty-two years
of age. He then purchased a farm in Cooper Hollow, Polk county. He also made a
trip to the Palouse country, Washington. He made a camp on the Touchet and took
a trip over to Tucanon and visited his step-brother. Returning to his camp he
found that his horses had strayed away and he was not able to find them until
the following spring which necessitated his remaining on the Touchet until that
spring. His camping ground was what is now Huntsville. The next year he returned
to Polk county, then came over to eastern Oregon. A little later he settled in
Klickitat county, where he resided four years, and then went to The Dalles. From
there he journeyed to the John Day river, settling in a portion of what is now
Wheeler county, and remained for one season. Then he came to his present place
and took a preemption and a homestead, half of which is his home now. He has
given his attention to the improvement and cultivation of it since and to stock
raising.
     In 1869 Mr. Moore married Miss Sarah E. Wren, a native of Illinois. Her
father, Thomas Wren, was a veteran of the Civil war. To this union the following
named children have been born, Mrs. Annie E. Horn, Mrs. Lela E. Newman, and Mrs.
Sophia I. Meteer.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.