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. 610.
 
GEORGE W. MOORE

     is one of the pioneers of Oregon and has seen a great deal of frontier
life, having been in different sections of the northwest in various occupations.
He was born in Illinois on January 5, 1842, and his parents are specifically
mentioned in the biography of his brother, Henry Moore. He was eleven years of
age when the family started across the plains to the Willamette valley in which
place he completed his education, that was begun in Illinois. In, 1862, in
company with his brother, Henry, he took pack horses and a saddle horse between
them and started for the Cariboo mines in British Columbia. He went as far as
Antler creek and did considerable prospecting but met with no very brilliant
success. Food stuff was a dollar a pound and meals two dollars and fifty cents
each. Finally they sold their horses and packed their blankets and provisions
back a distance of three hundred miles, then to the end of the journey, one
hundred miles farther. On December 19, 1864, our subject enlisted in Company H,
First Oregon Infantry, and served most of the time in Grant county. On January
19, 1866, he was honorably discharged and returned to the Willamette valley
where he made his home for eleven years. Then he moved to Umatilla county and
took up logging and sawmilling for six years. After that he came to Rock creek
and engaged in stock raising and farming. In 1887, Mr. Moore journeyed to Ohio,
and the next year came back to Rock creek. Then he went to Missouri, and again
returned to Rock creek. After that, he moved to Grant county, and two years
later took a homestead on Hay creek in Gilliam county. Later he sold that and
has made his home where he now resides, since.
     On January 14, 1872, Mr. Moore married Amanda Jane Howard, who was born in
Missouri, in 1856.
     In politics, our subject is a strong Republican, and he is a member of the
Church of God.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2007 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.