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John Moore, has already interested himself warmly in various measures effecting the prosperity of Louisiana...It is fortunate at this particular juncture, that the citizens of Louisiana are represented in Congress by a gentleman of so much intelligence, sagacity and experience as Judge Moore.
Moore was re-elected to Congress in 1851, but after visiting him once in 1852, Mary chose to remain behind at the Shadows, keeping in touch with her absent husband through letters.
John Moore died at the Shadows, on June 17, 1867 at the age of 78 and is buried next to Mary.
www.shadowsontheteche.org /shadows_mary_weeks_john_moore.html   (674 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Thomas Moore
Moore probably was not aware of this; at any rate he never availed himself of it.
Moore's reputation in the literary world of his time was of the highest, as is shown from the business arrangements made for the copyright of "Lalla Rookh" (1817).
MOORE, Memoirs, Journals, and correspondence, edited by LORD JOHN RUSSELL (London, 1853-6); GWYNN, Thomas Moore (London,1905); GUNNING, Moore, Poet and Patriot (Dublin, 1900); Memoirs of the author prefixed to the poems collected by Moore himself (1841); VALLET, Etude sur lavie et les oeuvres de Thomas Moore (Paris, 1886).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10553b.htm   (2231 words)

  
 John Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Moore (Archbishop) (1730–1805), Archbishop of Canterbury, Privy Counsellor
John Moore (regicide) (1599–1650), regicide of King Charles I of England
John Moore (Australian MP) (born 1936), Australian defence minister under John Howard
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JOHN M. John M. Shafer was perhaps as well known in and about Monticello as any one who lived here the latter half of the last century.
John P. Shafer, who was the fifth in a family of eight children, grew up in White County, and his education came entirely from the country schools of his generation.
JOHN H. By reason of the extent and quality of his usefulness, his commercial soundness and acumen, his public spirit, integrity, and nearness to the fundamental requirements of citizenship, John H. Smith affords an encouraging example of success gained through the proper use of everyday abilities and ordinary opportunities.
www.brookston.lib.in.us /WhiteCo/biographies-S.htm   (15868 words)

  
 The History of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois
Evan Douthit, the father of John, was one of the pioneer preachers in Shelby county, and settled in Richland township in 1828.
John Cochran, the grandfather of the subject of the present sketch, was born in North Carolina, and was a soldier of the Rev olution.
John Moses Hess, the great-grandfather of W. W., was a soldier under Washington, and acted the part of a soldier in that memorable stru ggle.
www.edenmartin.com /counties/shelbyvl.htm   (21750 words)

  
 Beers: Moore p. 1147   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
MOORE is a prominent representative of one of the old families of Cecil township.
He is a son of John Moore, whose parents were born Ireland, and coming to America about the time of the Revolution, settled in North Strabane township, Washington Co., Penn. Their son, John, was a native of Chartiers Township, this county, where he was reared.
Moore was born in 1820, in Chartiers township, this county, and in early boyhood came with the family to Mt. Pleasant township, where he where he received his education in the subscription schools.
www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/moore-1147.html   (389 words)

  
 Morris, Craig, Moore - Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
JOHN A. MOORE is a native son of the City of Wheeling and has become an influential figure in the industrial and commercial life of this metropolitan district of West Virginia, where he is secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Warwood Tool Company.
Moore is a scion of one of the sterling pioneer families of Wheeling, in which city his father, James B. Moore was born in the year 1838 and died in 1907.
William Moore, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in the north of Ireland, came to the United States in the early part of the nineteenth century, resided for a time in Western Pennsylvania, and thereafter became a pioneer settler in Tuscawaras County, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his life.
www.lindapages.com /craig/cw-craigfam.htm   (5597 words)

  
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John McElroy's parents (James McElroy/Sarah McCune) brought him to America in 1729, settling first in PA and then moving south to settled by 1749 (date of first deed found) on Buffalo River in what is now Prince Edward Co. VA.
John sold his VA land in 1771 and moved to the Waxhaw Settlement area of what was then Mecklenburg Co. NC (is now in SC) where he lived on Waxhaw Creek with MANY Moore neighbors.
Moore was the author of "Scottsville on the James," a history of the community that extends from a February day in 1745 when frontiersmen converged on the home of the town's founder, Edward Scott, to the flood that hit Scottsville during Hurricane Camille in 1969.
www.public.asu.edu /~moore/news/newsa04   (1746 words)

  
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Among the early settlers of White County was John Parsons Gardner of Virginia, descendant of Sir Thomas Gardner, Captain of Horse to Charles I of England.
John P. Gardner married Martha Ellen Higgins of Maryland, a descendant of Ebenezer Higgins (1757-1842) of New York.
John E. Godlove, one of the several sons of the late Perry Godlove, has not only shared in the general prosperity of this family in general, but through his own efforts has contributed to the substantial acquisitions which are represented in the country about Idaville.
www.brookston.lib.in.us /WhiteCo/biographies-G.htm   (12416 words)

  
 Great Valley House of Valley Forge Bed and Breakfast History
John Evans was the Lieutenant Governor of Pa. and heavily involved in acquiring land during this period.
John Kinkade's mortgage was foreclosed in 1760 in a suit brought by William Moore, Exr.
John Wilson was the owner during the Revolutionary War and he was a Tredyffrin resident raised on a Wilson farm east of here in what is now known as Chesterbrook.
www.greatvalleyhouse.com /history.htm   (769 words)

  
 Johnston Moore, Class of 1829   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Johnston Moore was born on September 8, 1809 at Mooredale in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania the only survivor of two sons of James and Nancy Johnston Moore.
The Moore family was one of the oldest and largest landed proprietors in the county, a forebearer purchasing several thousand acres on the Yellow Breeches Creek from John Penn in 1780.
According to minutes of faculty meetings, however, Moore continued to socialize with his friends on the campus across High Street; in August 1828 he was officially expelled and banned from the campus after abusing College officers and generally causing a nuisance.
chronicles.dickinson.edu /encyclo/m/ed_mooreJ.htm   (303 words)

  
 Co. Tipperary Bios
John Peters, a farmer and stock raiser, resides in Graham township, post-office address, Morse; was born in 1822, in Tipperary county, Ireland, a son of John and Johanna Peters.
John I. Mullany, a well known legal practitioner of Dubuque, is a native of Ireland, his birth occurring about April 1, 1847, in the County of Tipperary.
JOHN FINN, hardware dealer and Postmaster at Decorah, Iowa, was born March 7, 1836, in the parish of Ballywilham, county of Tipperary, Ireland, his parents being Patrick and Bridget (Minogue) Finn.
www.celticcousins.net /irishiniowa/tipperarybios.htm   (11891 words)

  
 John Stuart Mill - Autobiography - Chapter 4: Youthful Propangandism. The Westminster Review.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
From this time the Chronicle ceased to be the merely Whig organ it waS before, and during the next ten years became to a considerable extent a vehicle of the opinions of the Utilitarian radicals.
An article of Bingham's in the first number of the Westminster Review, in which he offered as an explanation of something which he disliked in Moore, that "Mr Moore is a poet, and therefore is not a reasoner," did a good deal to attach the notion of hating poetry to the writers in the Review.
But the truth was that many of us were great readers of poetry; Bingham himself had been a writer of it, while as regards me (and the same thing might be said of my father), the correct statement would be, not that I disliked poetry, but that I was theoretically indifferent to it.
www.john-mill.com /works/autobiography/4.html   (6570 words)

  
 Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore was one of the more revelrous poets of English Romanticism, composer of the orientalist epic poem "Lalla Rookh", translator of the "Odes" of Anacreon, and an early rival and then close friend, executor and biographer of Lord Byron.
Moore was often quite provocative in political matters: for instance, his beautiful "Irish Melodies" are seeped in Irish nationalist lore, and his numerous tweaking satires on all sorts of traditional British mores and institutions, even when characteristically good-humored, still carry a sting.
Moore refers to the former repeatedly as "Jenky" or "Jenkin" and to the latter as "Freddy" or "Robin".
cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/mooreco.htm   (5573 words)

  
 Genealogy Data Page 3 (Notes Pages)
On May 12th, 1777, he was promoted to Brigadier General at, in Roger Sherman's words, "Gen. Washington's request." He spent the summer of 1777 with General Putnam's command at Peekskill but in the autumn was recalled to the main army under Washington and spent the bitter winter of 1777-78 with Washington at Valley Forge.
John Nelson Steele was a member of the Union Club in New York City and the Everglades Club of Palm Beach, where he spent the winters after he retired.
Although not very active in politics, he served as the Chairman of the Whig State Central Committee in the 1840's and was a Democrat in later years.
www.johnsteelegordon.com /genealogy/n_2.html   (3067 words)

  
 The Life & Times of John Wheater(Farnborough, Wokingham, Downside, Bristol, Toronto, Farnham)
Maybe Sir Charles had belated Tory sympathies; for Moore was a Whig, brought on by the Duke of Hamilton.
Moore took part, with Nelson (who here, on land, suffered the later-useful loss of an eye), in the Corsican campaign which caused that island to become British for a couple of years.
There is a link here with Moore's contemporary William Cobbett, who commented on the waste of money in the building of the towers, and on the scandalous way early knowledge of the decision to build had led to cornering of the brick supply.
www.johnwheater.net /Moore.php   (448 words)

  
 Cecil Whig
Moore, who began on hole No. 3 in the shotgun start, started well, parring the first four holes.
Moore played on the golf team as a freshman but failed to make the district tournament.
Moore's strong mental approach aided his game in the wind.
www.cecilwhig.com /articles/2005/09/28/sports/01.txt   (300 words)

  
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John W. Moore’s second wife was Mary (Polly) Reed and this union produced 5 more children, the last being born when Hardin was about 35.
Their first child, John W. Moore was probably born in 1823, and soon thereafter, there were 6 more children born of this union.
Sally Jones Moore saw a lot of development of Mississippi (the founding of Jackson, the erection of the capitol building, the expulsion of the Choctaws in 1830, settlement of the entire state from 10 to 82 counties, telegraph, railroads etc) first hand until her death in 1860, just before the Civil War.
www.jaredsmith.net /hardindmoore.php   (4080 words)

  
 Ancestors of George Earle Burroughs
John B. Burroughs, born July 16, 1841 (1840 per Ellis Family Bible Record) in Zanesville, OH; died in Sept. 1841 in Belleville, Michigan.
In the 1900 Census, John T. Combs, age 64, born May 1836, MA (MA/MA), married 41 years, was living in Warren, Worcester Co., MA, Dist. 1696, with wife, A. Mary, age 62, born April 1838, MA (MA/MA), (1/1 child), and son L. Charles, age 37, single, born Oct. 1862, MA.
John Bell moved to Toledo, OH by Oct.1890 (Lois Ellis’s Genealogy) and was deceased as of 1913 (SWB Pension Application File).
www.johncolemanburroughs.com /family/GeorgeEarleBurroughsAncestors.html   (17745 words)

  
 Descendants of Thomas Moore Sr.
N.D. Moore (in the Laurel County, KY census) was married to a Jane Dyche.
Moore was born and raised in Laurel County Kentucky and was the mother of eleven children.
John died on 2 Dec, 1916 at Maplesville, Laurel Co., KY. and is buried in the Southard Cemetery.
bransoncook.systemaxonline.com /gedcoms/thomas_moore_sr/pafg07.htm   (12807 words)

  
 North Carolina Rev Web
John Moore and Maj. Nicholas Welch were gathered here to receive arms and training.
Near the Courthouse at the center of town, a force of fewer than 20 Whigs under Maj. Joseph Graham kept Cornwallis and the entire British army at bay for a short time, before slipping away into the dense woods.
Capt. Henry Francis of the Whigs was killed, and four were wounded.
www.bellsouthpwp.com /w/h/whigkid/ncrevweb   (1169 words)

  
 John Hood
Captain John Hood is the man who murdered Lieut.
[James] Meek, Capt. John Hood and several other Whig partisans succeeded in ridding the Country of the notorious Mayfield of Union, whose house was the rallying point for the Tories.
Mayfield knew none of them, and was disposed to believe them to be what they seemed; but before getting quite into their hands, he suspected something, and turned to fly.
www.members.tripod.com /sc_tories/john_hood.htm   (472 words)

  
 John BELL
“John Bell,” in Tennessee Senators as seen by one of their Successors.
Parks, Joseph H. “John Bell and the Compromise of 1850.” Journal of Southern History 9 (August 1943): 328-56.
Scott, Jesse W. “John Bell: A Tennessee Statesman in National Politics from 1840 to 1860.” Master’s thesis, Tennessee A. State College, 1950.
www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/bell-john.html   (176 words)

  
 Descendants of John Sanders I
Ravenett, who was identified as" wife of John Sanders" in her father's will.
She was reportedly the daughter of John Elmore and his Cherokee Indian wife, An-Nah-Wah-Kah, whose English name was Sarah.
By his pen and tongue he urged the election of John C. Fremont in 1860, and afterward, that of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, and stood by our chosen chief to the last, and sought no reward but that which conscience and sense of duty would grant.
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 Genealogy
Reuben Davis (Jan. 18, 1813 - Oct. 14, 1890), lawyers, was the youngest of twelve children of the Rev. John Davis, a Baptist minister who had gone to Tennessee, settling near Winchester.
Defeated for Congress on the Whig ticket in 1838, he was, in 1842, appointed judge of the Mississippi high court of appeals, but resigned after four months on the bench.
When the Mexican War broke out, he was elected Colonel of the 2nd Mississippi Volunteers.
www.johnwill.net /howse/davis/reub1.htm   (492 words)

  
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According to 5 CONC Coffin's list, John Hoag was a weaver, born 1643, died 1728 and "came to 5 CONC Newbury".
John Jones married (2) 29 May 5 CONC [April?] 1711 Newbury, Essex County Mass to Susanna Fowler, daughter of 5 CONC Samuel & Hannah Fowler of Salisbury Mass.
John Jones married (2) 29 May 4 CONC [April?] 1711 Newbury, Essex County Mass to Susanna Fowler, daughter of 4 CONC Samuel & Hannah Fowler of Salisbury Mass.
www.johnhoyt.com /hoag3.ged   (4778 words)

  
 HST 101 (Moore)
How do the two cases from colonial Virginia of (1) John Smith's tales about his adventures and (2) the relationship of tobacco planting and the growth of slavery as the preferred labor form demonstrate that it is necessary "frequently [to] disregard the answers that the social actors themselves would give to.
Compare the Jacksonian Democrats with the Whigs: their programs, political styles, and leadership.
Why do the authors say that "inevitably the question of personal motivation (for Brown's actions against slavery] becomes inextricably bound to historians' interpretations of the root causes of sectional and social conflicts" (p.
www.uvm.edu /~jmoore/us/writingassignments.html   (2152 words)

  
 Dear Compatriots:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Neal, James Mitchell, John Nixon, James Wallace and Richard Winn.
County where he burned the home of John McClure and the home and study of the
John Simpson, minister of the Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church.
www.flssar.org /v9n2whig.html   (2163 words)

  
 MichaelMoore.com : The Worst President in History?
Yet even then, Bush wasted his chance by quickly choosing partisanship over leadership.
No other president -- Lincoln in the Civil War, FDR in World War II, John F. Kennedy at critical moments of the Cold War -- faced with such a monumental set of military and political circumstances failed to embrace the opposing political party to help wage a truly national struggle.
But Bush shut out and even demonized the Democrats.
www.michaelmoore.com /words/latestnews/index.php?id=6584   (4670 words)

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