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the Masonic fraternity. In Bolivar county, Dec. 4, 1873, Senator Moore was united in marriage to Miss Martha Montgomery, daugh- ter of Judge Frank A. and Charlotte Montgomery. Judge Montgom- ery was a lineal descendant of Hon. Cato West, who was secretary and acting governor of Mississippi territory. Judge Montgomery was colonel of the Second Mississippi cavalry during the Civil war, in which he rendered faithful and gallant service in support of the cause of the Confederacy. He served as circuit judge in 1896-1900, and is the author of a valuable work, entitled, "Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War." Mr. and Mrs. Moore have one daughter, Lotta Clark, who is the wife of Amos A. Armstead, a prom- inent member of the bar of the city of Vicksburg.
Montgomery, William B. The life and character of William B. Montgomery re- veals him to be one of Mississippi's great men who lived in advance of his genera- tion. His intrinsic worth and nobility of purpose ever made him a potent factor for good in all the relations of life. A descendant of a long line of illustrious ancestors, he well sustained the rich herit- age which he received and handed it down untarnished to his children with the addi- tion of new jewels to answer to his name. His father, Hugh Montgomery, and his mother, Isabelle Montgomery, both be- longed to families which were prominent in the colonial epoch of our national history. William Bell Mont- gomery was born in Fairfield district, S. C., Aug. 21, 1829 and his parents moved into Mississippi when he was only six years old. His boyhood days were spent in the country, where he imbibed and be- came saturated with the industrial spirit that so characterized his acts in later life. His educational advantages were the very best; he obtained a common school education in the very best country schools, was next a student for a time in Erskine college, at Due- west, S. C., and then went to Princeton university, in New Jersey, where he graduated in 1850, and left a brilliant record to his credit. Mr. Montgomery returned to Mississippi and engaged in agricul- tural pursuits for a number of years and just prior to the Civil war he also became interested in the cotton commission business in Mo- bile, Ala. Pre-eminently a man of peace, he was opposed to the Civil war, though he remained truly loyal to the Confederacy when the division finally came. After the war, when darkness and deso- lation reigned supreme over the South, he was indeed a pioneer in his section. A man of rugged honesty and infallible integrity, ever found on the side of right and justice, actuated by conscientious motives and making no compromise with principle, his advice was as safe as the law and his counsel was like wisdom itself. Full of hope and with undaunted courage, he addressed himself with con- summate power to the introduction of movements whose beneficent
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effects will continually roll down the coming years. He entered into his work in agriculture with a fine spirit and a remarkable de- gree of enthusiasm that insured success; his optimism proved highly contagious and resulted in the inauguration and establishment of improved methods of farming in his county. He favored diversi- fied agriculture, introduced new grasses for hay and pastures, turned his attention to fancy stock raising, especially Jersey cattle, and achieved such a remarkable success in this department of his farm- ing enterprises that it gave him a reputation throughout the entire South. He carried on his successful dairying business for more than thirty years and accomplished much in the way of advancing the stock and agricultural interests of his State. He was not given to public speaking, but with his pen he had few equals and no superiors in the State. He established the Southern Live Stock Journal, for quite a while the leading educational paper of that character in the South. He was a firm believer in real estate and was one of the most extensive land owners in Oktibbeha county. Mr. Mont- gomery was a man of distinguished ability and a citizen of unstinted public spirit ; throughout all the years of his noble and useful life he was deeply interested in educational and religious work. But for him, the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical college would never have been located in Oktibbeha county; and it was largely due to his abiding faith in the ultimate success of the college, his loyal and continued support of the president and faculty, and his powerful influence on the board of trustees, during the twenty years which he so faithfully and earnestly served as local trustee of the college, that this great institution of learning was set in successful motion. He was strikingly noted for his breadth of information, his wonderful will power, and the remarkable courage of his convic- tions. He was likewise distinguished for the even balance of his faculties, his careful, conservative judgment, and the splendid poise of his manly character. His intellectual and moral processes were of the highest type and no citizen of the State was better known or more uniformly loved and esteemed. He was a zealous member and officer of the United Presbyterian church with which he had been identified for a number of years. He was a Prohibitionist, being an uncompromising advocate of the temperance cause and labored hard all of his life to help his people and the community in which he lived; and in the coming cycles of time, when the deeds of the fathers are being told with eloquent voice, the name of William B. Montgomery will ever stand as the symbol of duty performed without thought of self and without the slightest indication of tem- poral results. At the time of his death, Sept. 25, 1904, in the old ancestral home, near Starkville, erected in 1843 by his uncle, David Montgomery, by the special request of the president and faculty of the college, the funeral services were held in the college chapel and were attended by many notable men of the State, by the entire student body, president, and faculty of the college, and by a large concourse of appreciative friends. Mr. Montgomery was married twice; in 1852, to Miss Julia Gillespie, the daughter of Dr. Wm. and
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Margery Gillespie of Starkville. Of this union, three of five children survive him, Edwin and Margery of Starkville, and Alice, widow of John W. Pope, of Atlanta, Ga. The children and wife of Albert, a beloved son, reside in Meridian, Miss. In 1865, the marriage of Mr. Montgomery and Miss Sarah A. Glenn, daughter of Wm. and Elizabeth Glenn, was solemnized. Of five children given them, but one, Mabel E., survives and she resides with her mother who has continued to live at the old homestead, hallowed to her through the memories and associations of the past, and gives her personal super- vision to the management of the estate, carrying forward the various departments of enterprise which her honored husband had estab- lished.
Moore, Henry Davis, mayor of the thriving little city of Gulfport. Harrison county, and ex-senator of the State from- the Fifteenth district, is a native son of Mississippi, having been born in Kemper county, Nov. 20, 1861. He is a son of Henry and Mildred (Durham) Moore, the former of whom was born in Kemper county, while the latter was born in North Carolina. The father was a member of a Mississippi regiment of infantry during the Civil war, his regiment being attached to the army of Virginia, and he died in 1861, as the result of disease contracted while in military service. Henry D. Moore may well be designated as a man of liberal education, and yet this represents primarily the results of his own self-discipline and of the lessons gained under the direction of that wisest of all headmasters-experience. He availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of his native State as opportunity afforded, but in the period of "reconstruction" after the war civic and industrial affairs in the South were in a most disrupted shape, and it was under these conditions that his boyhood days were passed. Whatever of handicap there may have been, however, he has effectually over- come in later years. As a youth he gave evidence of the good use he had made of his educational privileges, since he became eligible for pedagogic labors, having taught school successfully for several terms. In 1884 he located in Meridian, this State, where he held the position of bookkeeper in a wholesale commission house for two years, resigning this incumbency to engage in farming operations and to conduct a general store at Handle, Winston county, where he continued to reside for the ensuing sixteen years, becoming one of the most honored and influential citizens of that section. He brought about the establishing of the postoffice at Handle, and served as postmaster during the remaining years of his residence in the town. In 1895 he was made the Democratic nominee for State senator from the Fifteenth senatorial district, and he was elected by a gratifying majority, serving in the upper house of the legislature
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during three sessions and proving a conscientious, discriminating and forceful legislator, and one ever loyal to his constituency. In 1901 Senator Moore came to Gulfport, becoming one of the pioneers of the new and thriving village, to whose substantial upbuilding and civic and industrial progress he has contributed in a notable degree. He was one of the promoters and organizers of the Bank of Commerce and was its first cashier, remaining in tenure of this office until he engaged in the mercantile business, from which he has recently retired, on account of impaired health. In 1903 Mr. Moore was elected city treasurer, serving two years and being then elected mayor of the city, in which office he is serving most effectively at the time of this writing, his administration being essentially liberal and progressive and one which has met the approval of all classes of citizens. Mr. Moore is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Improved Order of Red Men, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and both he and his wife are valued members of the Baptist church. On July 3, 1889, Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss Emma F. Cook, daughter of W. B. and Mary (Greer) Cook, of Ne- shoba county, and of the five children of this union all are living except Vera, the first born, who died at the age of one year. The names of the other children are: Vesta, Lamar, Henry Cook and Cecil Durham.
Moore, Henry H., owner and operator of a shingle mill and cotton gin in Waynesboro, is one of the substantial business men of Wayne county, while he is also a veteran of the Civil war. He was born. in Claiborne county, Miss., Feb. 17, 1846, and is a son of Robert and Sarah Moore, the former of whom was born in Tennessee and the latter in Alabama. Robert Moore came to Mississippi as a pioneer, having been one of the early settlers of Claiborne county and having devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. Both he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives in Lauderdale county, Miss. Henry H. Moore secured his early education in the schools of Brookhaven, Lincoln county, Miss., and in 1863, at the age of sixteen years, he manifested his intrinsic loyalty to the South by tendering his ser- vices in defense of the cause of the Confederacy. Hc enlisted as a. private in Company A, Seventh Mississippi battalion, commanded by Colonel Hodges, being mustered in at Enterprise, Miss., after which he was with his command in Memphis, Tenn. The only se- vere engagement in which he took part was that at Harrisburg, Miss., but he served about six months under General Forrest, and within that time he participated in many skirmishes. He was mus- tered out at the close of the war, near Meridian, and returned to his home with the honors of a youthful veteran who had fought bravely and faithfully for the cause which he had espoused. He eventually engaged in farming in Lauderdale county, where he remained four years, after which he removed to Choctaw county, Ala., where he was identified with the same line of enterprise for an equal period. He then engaged in the lumbering business in that State, operating a mill for six years, and in 1891 he located in Waynesboro, where he has since maintained his home and where he built up a most
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flourishing business in the operation of a well equipped shingle mill and cotton gin. On Dec. 4, 1905, the shingle mill and cotton gin were burned and Mr. Moore abandoned that line of work, and with others has since become interested in a large brick factory in Waynes- boro. The company is known as the Waynesboro Brick and Manu- facturing Company and the output is 20,000 to 35,000 brick a day. Mr. Moore is superintendent of the plant, which has very brilliant prospects. He is one of the popular and valued citizens of the town, is a Free Mason and also holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World, as well as the local camp of the United Confederate Veterans, while both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Waynes- boro. In 1873 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Moore to Miss Mattie Gilmore, daughter of William Gilmore, of Wilcox county, Ala., and they have six children, namely: Dr. Walter N., who is en-" gaged in the practice of medicine at Daphne, Ala .; Fred C., who is associated with his father in his business affairs; and Minnie, Maggie, Vernon and Christine, who remain at the parental home.
Moore, Volney, a prosperous and well known planter and stock grower of Yalo- busha county, is one of the native sons of this county who has here maintained allegiance to the great fundamental art of agriculture, through which he has gained a success of no indefinite order. His fine plantation is located near the village of Oakland, which is his postoffice address. Mr. Moore was born in Oak- land, this county, July 26, 1850, and is a son of Greene D. and Elizabeth (Lott) Moore, the former of whom was born in the State of North Carolina, and the latter in Mississippi. Greene D. Moore removed to Tennessee, from which State he came to Mississippi in an early day, being numbered among the prominent pioneers of Yalobusha county, where he engaged in mercantile business and also became an extensive planter. He was one of the best known and most influential citizens of this section and a member of a family which has had many worthy representatives here. He served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil war and was a man of lofty integrity and much public spirit. Both he and his wife died in Oakland. Volney Moore, the immediate subject of this review, was reared to manhood in Yalobusha county, which has been his home from the time of his birth, while he received excellent educa- tional advantages in his youth. He has been identified with agri- cultural and mercantile pursuits during his entire active busi- ness career and in his methods and success has well upheld the high standard of the honored name which he bears. His native village of Oakland is situated on the boundary line between Yalobusha and Tallahatchie counties, and in the latter is located the greater
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portion of his highly improved plantation of 640 acres, a portion of which he leases, while he gives his personal supervision to the opera- tion of the remainder. He is progressive in his attitude, both in his business affairs and in matters of public import, and is one of the popular citizens of his community. While he is a stanch ad- herent of the Democratic party, he has never sought the honors or emoluments of public office. In September, 1881, Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Winters, daughter of Henry W. and Sallie (Davidson) Winters, who came to Mississippi from North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Moore had no children. Mrs. Moore passed to the rest eternal on Sept. 4, 1905.
Morris, Rev. Charles, D. D., of Holly Springs, is a prominent representative of the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal church in Mississippi, of whose diocese he was formerly arch-deacon, but he is now practically retired from the work of the ministry and is giving his attention prin- cipally to the management of his fine plantation, near Holly Springs. Dr. Mor- ris is a scion of the cavalier stock in Vir- ginia and is himself a native of the patrician Old Dominion State, having been born in Lynchburg, Campbell county, in 1853, and being a son of Dr. William S. and Page (Waller) Morris. His father was a prominent physician and surgeon in Virginia, where he continued in the practice of his profession until 1860. After the establishing of the Confederate States of America he became president of the government military and civil telegraph companies, in which capac- ity he continued to do most effective service in the Confederate cause until the close of the war. Thereafter he represented the Lynchburg district in the Virginia legislature for several years. He was then made general manager of the Southern & Atlantic Telegraph Company, of New York, retaining this position for a number of years and having maintained his home in Virginia until his demise. His wife, who likewise is deceased, was a daughter of Dr. Robert P. and Laura (Mercer) Waller, the latter of whom was a daughter of Gen. Hugh Mercer, who attained distinction as an officer in the War of the Revolution and in whose honor a fine monument has been erected at Fredericksburg, Va. After due preliminary discipline the sub- ject of this sketch entered the College of William and Mary, at Wil- liamsburg, Va., later continuing his academic studies in Richmond college, in whose law department he was graduated, after which he completed the prescribed divinity course in the Protestant Episcopal theological seminary, at Alexandria, being thereafter duly ordained to the priesthood of the church. He had previously been employed by the Southern & Atlantic Telegraph Company, of which his father was general manager at the time, and after his ordination he was engaged in pastoral work in the diocese of Indiana for a time. In 1892
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Doctor Morris came to Mississippi and was installed as rector of Trinity church at Natchez, an incumbency which he retained four years, after which he was arch-deacon of the diocese of Mississippi for a period of four years. He retired from active ministerial work in 1901 and has since given his time principally to the supervision of his plantation, as already noted. He has maintained his home in Holly Springs since 1904. Dr. Morris is a Democrat in his politi- cal allegiance and has attained to the commandry degrees in the Masonic fraternity. He married Miss Markie Brown, daughter of John H. Brown, a representative planter of Tallahatchie county, Miss., and they have one daughter, Page, who is the wife of George S. Pintard, of Natchez.
Moseley, Lonzo B., of Jackson, is clerk of the United States circuit and district courts of the southern district of Missis -. sippi and is also United States commis- sioner, being known as an able and dis- criminating official and enjoying marked popularity in the capital city and among the public men of the State. He was born near Huntsville, Ala., in October, 1852, and is a son of Dr. Robert B. and Mary (Gooch) Moseley, to whom were born three children-Louis and William R., twins, the former being deceased and the latter being deputy collector of customs at Scranton, Miss., and Lonzo B., the im- mediate subject of this sketch. Dr. Robert B. Moseley was born in Madison county, Va., where he received his early education, and he secured his technical education in medicine in Philadelphia and the medical department of the University of Virginia." He began the practice of his profession in 1848, at Princeton, W. Va., whence he removed later to Huntsville, Ala., from which place he came to Hinds county, Miss., where he continued in successful practice until his death, having been recognized as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of the State. He had made preparations to enter the Confederate service as a soldier and while going to Edwards to bid farewell to friends he contracted a severe cold, which resulted in his death, in 1862, his wife having passed away in 1854. Lonzo B. Moseley received his education in private and public schools and as , a youth initiated his business career by securing a clerkship in a grocery establishment in the city of Jackson, being thus employed about two years, after which he was identified with the planting industry for some time, later engaging in the grocery business for himself in the city of Jackson. With this enterprise he continued concerned until 1889, when he was appointed deputy United States marshal, retaining this incumbency until May 1, 1892, when he was appointed clerk of the United States circuit and district courts for the southern district of Mississippi, in which office he has since remained in tenure, as well as that of United States commissioner, to which
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he was appointed in 1892. by Judge Niles. He is a loyal and popular citizen, and is at the present time chairman of the Jackson fire de- partment commission. He is a representative of his State on the national committee of the Republican party. He has various local interests and is a stockholder and director in the Capitol National bank. He is one of the prominent workers of the Republican party in the State and has served as chairman of its State committee. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, in which he is a member of the vestry of St. Andrew's parish. Upon the reorgan- ization of the Jackson, Miss., fire department from the volunteer system to the paid department by the city of Jackson, Mr. Moseley was selected as one of the fire commissioners from the First ward of the city for a four-years term and by the commission elected as the chairman of said commission. On Oct. 22, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Moseley to Miss Margaret L. McAlpin, daughter of James T. and Mary J. (Edward) McAlpin, and the two children of this union are: Niles, born Aug. 22, 1896, and Lonzo B., Jr., born Jan. 1, 1903, whose picture is herewith taken in the arms of Mr. Moseley.
Mounger, Edwin H., junior member of the well known law firm of Mounger & Mounger, of Columbia, Marion county, is a native son of Mississippi who is attaining to distinction in one of the most exacting of professions, being numbered among the repre- sentative younger members of the bar of the State. He was born in Jasper county, Miss., July 15, 1870, and is a son of William H. and Artelissa (Terral) Mounger, both of whom, now deceased, were likewise natives of Jasper county, where they were reared. The father followed the vocation of planting during the major portion of his active career, while it was his privilege to render to the Con- federacy the loyal and valiant service of definite patriotism during the dark hours of the Civil war, in which he was a member of a Mis- sissippi regiment of infantry. He whose name initiates this para- graph secured his preliminary educational training in the public schools, and after completing a course in the high school was ma- triculated in the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, in the law de- partment of which admirable institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1896, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws and being duly admitted to the bar of his native State. He initiated the practice of his chosen profession by locating in Columbia, where he has since been associated with his brother Henry, under the firm name of Mounger & Mounger, his brother being State senator from the Fourth senatorial district at the time of this writing, in 1906. The firm controls a general practice in the State and federal courts and is numbered among the successful law concerns of Marion county, its members being young men of excellent technical training and of recognized power and discrimination as attorneys and counselors. Our subject is a stalwart Democrat in his political allegiance; his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in a fraternal way we find him identified with the local lodge and chapter
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of the Masonic order and with the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the board of directors of the Columbia bank. On Feb. 12, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mounger to Miss Fannie Lou Langford, who was born in Georgia, being a daughter of Hill L. and Dora (Haney) Langford, the former of whom is engaged in the saw mill business. On Aug. 29, 1904, our subject was bereaved of his wife, leaving one child, a son, namely, Edwin L. On Jan. 24, 1905, Mr. Mounger again married, his second wife being Miss Maytie V. Bankston of Amite City, La., daughter of Francis M. Bankston, now deceased, who was a prominent lawyer of Amite at the time of his death.
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