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now the care of the Sixth as well as the Eleventh Regiment." His short service, which extended only to December of the same year, was so arduous that it undermined his health and he was forced to re- tire. He returned to his home in Andover, where he passed away January 10, 1813. He had been prominent in Masonic circles, and was buried with appropriate Masonic ceremonies. He was elected an associate member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, June, 1807. His parents were noted as fine singers in their day, and Dr. Moore was early taught music and the use of stringed instruments. He never relaxed his interest in this art, and became a composer and excellent musical performer, his compositions being widely published through the mediums of his time. He also contributed songs and articles of great literary merit to the journals of the day. He organized one of the first musical societies in the state, at Andover, and equipped and managed a band, in which one of the first clario- nets used or made in the state was one of the in- struments. This was made from a pattern procured by Dr. Moore abroad. Some of his students became noted both as physicians and musicians, in parti- cular, Dr. Nathaniel Wheet and Dr. Peter Elkins. Dr. Moore married, November 9, 1796, Mary Eaton, born in Candia, June II, 1773, died of consumption, in Manchester, New Hampshire, December 20, 1847. They had children: Jacob Bailey, Mrs. Mary (Moore) Brown, Henry Eaton and John Weeks Moore. Mrs. Moore was the daughter of Ephraim Eaton, and a member of a family of marked musi- cal talent. Her son John W. Moore, said of her death ; "Her parting words with us were : 'Good bye ; meet me in Heaven!' Impressed with sacred awe, how softly shall we tread the turf near where her body lies. 'Meet me in Heaven!' Those few words will live in memory. The loved, the kind, the good mother has gone. Her spirit is with God. And in this life of death her children wait, when ripe and ready, to gather home."
She went as sets the morning star-which goes Not down behind the darkened West, nor hides Obscured among the tempests of the sky.
But melts away in the azure light of Heaven.
(VI) Jacob B., eldest son of Dr. Jacob Bailey (5) and Mary (Eaton) Moore, was born in An- dover, New Hampshire, October 31, 1797. Very early in life he was noted for his studious habits, and he acquired more than the usual amount of classical knowledge, although he did not pass through college. As a boy he became an apprentice in the printing office of Isaac & Walter B. Hill, of Con- cord, publishers of the New Hampshire Patriot. He
attended strictly to the duties of his calling by day, and often studied until late into the night in his earnest pursuit of knowledge. He was an excel- lent singer and played several instruments well, the violin being his favorite. The first Concord band was established largely through his efforts, and he was ever a friend and patron of music, but finding that his musical gifts were interfering with the prosecution of his studies and necessary labors, he destroyed his violin and music while yet an ap- prentice, and never used another. Before he had been two years employed in the office of the Patriot, his compositions, printed in that journal, began to attract attention, their authorship being unknown to the general public, and soon the general interest in his finished and masterly articles compelled the revelation of the author's name. After the com- pletion of his apprenticeship Mr. Moore became as- sociated in partnership with Isaac Hill in the pub- lication of the Patriot and the printing business. They continued to co-operate with profit and satis- faction for many years, and the Patriot attained the largest circulation of any paper published in the Gran- ite State, up to that time. They became divided on the issue of supporting John Quincy Adams for a second term in the presidency, and an amicable dis- solution of partnership took place. Mr. Moore then established the New Hampshire Journal, a Whig paper, which came to have a wide circulation throughout New England. It was not only a strong political organ, but a valuable literary medium, and compassed the election of a United States senator in conjunction with the personal influence of its editor, then a member of the legislature. About this time Mr. Moore published : "New Hampshire His- torial Collections." "Gazetteer of New Hampshire," "History of Concord," and "History of Andover." He was also editor of the periodicals of the New Hampshire Historical Society, and had charge of its papers. His style was forceful and interesting. and his works will ever live in libraries and in the minds of students of history. The changes of political sentiment bringing the downfall of the Adams party in New Hampshire caused Mr. Moore to withdraw from public life in his native state. During the administration of Harrison and Tyler he held a lucrative clerkship at Washington, District of Columbia, and from thence removed to the city of New York. He was chosen librarian of the New York Historical Society, and while in dis- charge of his duties connected with this office, brought out his "Lives of New England Governors." He was made postmaster at San Francisco, Cali- fornia, in 1849, and agent of the post office depart- ment for the territory of Oregon. He died at Bel- low Falls, Vermont, September 1. 1853, and was buried in Iman church-yard, although no stone as yet marks his resting place.
Jacob Bailey Moore married Mary Adams Hill, sister of Governor Hill, of New Hampshire. and had four sons and two daughters: George Henry, Charles Carroll, Jacob Bailey, one time librarian of New York Historical Society; he graduated from New York University in 1851, with high honors ; Frank Moore, Mrs. Lucretia Moore Osborne and Mrs. Mary Moore Jones. Frank Moore, third son of Jacob Bailey and Mary Adams (Hill) Moore, born at Concord, New Hampshire, is widely known as the author of "Rebellion Records," "Songs and Ballads of the Revolution," "Diary of the American Revo- lution" and "Spirit of the Holy Bible." He was at- tached to the American Legation in Paris during
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the Franco-Prussian war. in 1870, and :s secretary most efficiently aided Minister Washburn in the beneficent but arduous duties of that trying period. He died August 10, 1895.
(VI) Ilenry Eaton, son of Dr. Jacob Bailey (5) and Mary (Eaton) Moore, was born in Andover, New Hampshire, July 21. 1803, died at East Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, October 23. 1841. His lit- erary education was the same as that enjoyed by the majority of the boys of his time, but his musical gifts were carefully cultivated by his parents, and he came to be noted as a composer and publisher of music. He was happy in the study and practice of his beloved art, and excelled in all that pertained to it. By the time that he was sixteen years of age- he was well known as a teacher and composer of both vocal and instrumental music. Books upon this science were rare and costly in those days, and it was not then much taught, but his enthusiasm and masterly ability built up a clientele in the course of time, and he enjoyed some of the fruits of his successful composition. In his youth the vocation of a musician was not held to be remunerative, and he was apprenticed to Hill & Moore, in Concord, to learn the trade of printing. He established the Grafton Journal at Plymouth, New Hampshire, in IS24, and conducted this as a family newspaper for a period of several years. His first musical publi- cation was a "Musical Catechism," which made its appearance in 1829, and was the first matter of its kind published in the country, and was extensively sold to teachers and students of music. Three years later Mr. Moore compiled and published "The New Hampshire Collection of Church Music, this being a collection of the most approved psalm and hymn tunes, designed for public and private devotion to- gether with a few set pieces, solos, duets, choruses and anthems." This work consisted of three hun- dred and fifty-two pages, and was a most ambitious publication for New Hampshire. It established the fame of its author, and received a liberal patronage. One year later he published the "Merrimack Col- lection of Instrumental and Martial Music." which was arranged for various instruments and had a wide sale. He published "The National Choir." in 1834. and in 1837 the "Northern Harp, a new collec- tion of Church Music." Mr. Moore removed to East Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1838, where he con- tinued to teach music until his death at the age of thirty eight years. Ile was founder of many musi- cal societies and conventions, and taught a larger number of schools and pupils than any other man in a similar number of years. A few weeks before his death he began the publication, at Boston, of a musical weekly called the Boston Eoliad, and but two numbers had been issued when he was called away. He had in preparation a "History of Music" and a "Dictionary of Musical Terms" He was exceedingly affable and pleasant in his manner. gentlemanly and generous to a marked degree, and was lamented by a large circle of friends.
Hle married Susan Dearborn Farnham, born in Concord. New Hampshire, November 16, 1801, died in Manchester, June 6, 1880. She was a daughter of Deacon Ephraim and Sarah (Brown) Farnham. the former a successful farmer of Concord. (See Farnnum VI). Mr. and Mrs. Moore had children : I. Henry Lawrence, born in Concord, New Ilamp- shire, July 1, 1828, died unmarried, December 1, 1853. 2. John Augustine, born in Concord, New Hampshire, April 28. 1831. died unmarried, in the city of New York, November 7, 1876. William
Ellery, see forward. 4. Susan Frances, born in Con- cord, New Hampshire, January 5. 1836, married, June 8, 1865. Joseph Warren Fellows, of Andover, New Ilampshire, and died Manchester,
August II, 1874. She had no children. 5. Ella Maria, born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2, 1840, died unmarried, in Canton, in the same state, August 28, 18So.
(VI) John Weeks. son of Dr. Jacob Bailey (5) and Mary (Eaton) Moore, was born in Andover, New Hampshire. April 11, 1807, died in Manches- ter, in the same state, March 23, 1889. He was apprenticed to learn the printer's trade in the office of the New Hampshire Patriot, and in 1825 and 1826 was in the office of James Dickinson, of Dover, New Hampshire, who was engaged in the publica- tion of the New Hampshire Gazette. One year later he commenced the publication of the Androscoggin Free Press, the first weekly newspaper in the state of Maine, and which was published at Brunswick. He then returned to Concord, where, in conjunc- tion with his brother, Henry Eaton Moore. he started the Concord Semi-Weekly Advertiser, the first newspaper to be published twice a week in Concord. They also contracted to print the historical collec- tions for their brother, Jacob B. Moore. John W. Moore was also a member of the firm of John W. Moore & Company, which published the Daily News, in Manchester. He was editor of the New Hampshire Journal of Music, in 1870. Mr. Moore removed to Bellows Falls, Vermont, in 1838, where he commenced the publication of the Bellows Falls Gazette, which he published for seventeen years, during ten of which he was postmaster. He was identified with the art of printing, and printers, for more than seventy years. Among his published works may be mentioned the following: "World of Music," "The Sacred Minstrel," "The Musician's Lexicon." "The Musical Library. "The American Comprehensive Music Teacher," in two editions, at Brattleboro. 1855-56; "The American Collection of Instrumental Music," Roston. 1856; "The Star Col- lection of Instrumental Music." "Complete Ency- clopaedia of Music," Boston. Cleveland. New York and London, 1854, a volume containing more than one thousand pages, which alone would have given him undisputed fame in the musical history of his country, and upon which the definitions of musical terms in Webster's and Worcester's dictionaries are based: "Appendix to Complete Encyclopaedia of Music," published in Boston, New York, Chicago and Manchester, in 1875: "Vocabulary of Musical Terms": List of Musical Works published in the United States from 1640 to 1875. Boston, New York, Philadelphia. Chicago, and Manchester. New Hamp- shire, in 1876; "Collections, Topographical, Histor- ical and Biographical." Vol. I. Concord, 1831; "Musicians' Lexicon"; "History of Music"; "Musi- cal Terms." published in numbers of one hundred pages, in Bellows Falls, Vermont, in 1841 ; "Musical Library." a magazine publication in Bellows Falls in 1849: "Musical Record," a magazine of music. art. science literature and news. Manchester. New Hampshire. from January, 1867. to January, 1870; "Progressive Lessons." three editions. Bellows Falls, 1847: "Puritanism of Music in America," eighteen numbers, published in Portsmouth and Manchester. in 1863. At the time of his death he was engaged in arranging the matter for a supplementary volume to the "Historical Notes on Printers and Printing."
Ile married. September 17, 1832. Emily Jane East- man, born in Concord, New Hampshire, January 6,
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1809, died in Manchester, New Hampshire, May IS, ISSI. They had children: I. Ellen, born in Con- cord, New Hampshire. 2. Henry, born in Bellows Falls, Vermont. November 1, 1840, died in the same town February 20, 1842. 3. Emily, born in Bellows Falls, Vermont. His two daughters, Ellen and Emily, inherited the love of music and books from both their father and mother. They have both taught music, Ellen while living at Bellows Falls, Vermont, and Emily at Manchester, New Hamp- shire, where her piano pupils and musical kinder- garten classes have been very large. She has given lessons to the second and even third generation of her pupils.
John Weeks Moore was named for Dr. John Weeks, of Hampton, New Hampshire. Mr. Moore not only composed music, but played the violin and piano and taught music. He spent much time per- fecting himselt on his favorite instrument, the flute, and even when a child he preferred to stay at home and play the flute rather than in romping with other boys. He had a great love for books and the mak- ing of books, and continued his studious habits all his life. Mr. Moore was almost a lifelong com- municant of the Episcopal Church, and in later years when he was prevented from attending church he always read her daily service. He and his whole family were made members of the Episcopal Church at Bellows Falls, Vermont.
(VII) George Henry, eldest son of Jacob Bailey (6) and Mary Adams (Hill) Moore, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, April 20, 1823. He studied for a time at Dartmouth College, and in 1839 removed to New York and became a student in the University of New York, from which he was graduated in the class of 1845, with the highest honors. Prior to his graduation he had received the appoint- ment of assistant librarian of the New York Histor- ical Society, and became librarian after his gradu- ation, thus filling a position which had been capably filled by his father. He was also superintendent of the Lenox Library of New York city in 1872. He was widely known in the best literary circles through his writings. among which may be mentioned: "The Treason of Charles Lee"; "Employment of Negroes in the Revolutionary Army"; "Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts"; "History of the Juris- prudence of New York"; "Early History of Colum- bia College"; "Washington As An Angler." The University of the City of New York conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was con- nected with the following organizations: Corres- ponding member of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society; the same of the Massachu- setts Historical Society ; life member of the Boston- ian Society; New York Historical Society; Amer- ican Antiquarian Society; and life fellow of the American Geographical Society. George Henry Moore married Mary Given Richards, of New York city. They had two children: George Evertson and Mrs. Alison Given Smith. The son studied medi- cine in this country and Europe and practiced with great success in New York city ; died April 15, 1891.
(VII) William Ellery, third son and child of Henry Eaton (6) and Susan Dearborn (Farnham) Moore, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, No- vember 12, 1833. When a very young lad he re- moved with his parents to East Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, where the death of his father occurred shortly afterward. William was placed upon a farm, and even as a child evinced his fondness for books and all connected with them. He then went to Man-
chester, New Hampshire, where his school education was completed in the high school. In one of the books that he had in charge as secretary of Man- chester's Association of Old Residents, Mr. Moore wrote a few lines descriptive of his first coming to the town. This was in December, 1841. He wrote : "We came over the Lowell road to Nashua and then took an old-fashioned sleigh-stage. We drove di- rectly to the house of Dr. Thomas Brown, who lived then in the 'Old Ark,' at the corner of Elm and Amherst streets." Dr. Brown's wife was Mary Moore, a sister of the father of William Ellery Moore. He was still quite a boy when he com- menced to learn the trade of printing in the office of Henry A. Gage, who was one of the proprietors of The Weekly American. It was at this time that Mr. Moore attended the Manchester high school. He, in company with a number of other young men, was induced to go to Texas, by a series of misrepre- sentations, and when there they were thrown upon their own resources. Mr. Moore succeeded in ob- taining a position as a school teacher, and was also the editor of The Times, at Sabine Pass, Texas, when the Civil war broke out, and he found himself in the midst of a great rebel community. This. of course, put an end to his occupation. At the close of the war he returned to Manchester. and for sev- eral , months made his home with his sister, Mrs. Fellows. Shortly after this he went to New York city, where he was engaged in the printing business for a long period of time. He again returned to Manchester, and made arrangements with James M. Campbell and A. A. Hanscom, whereby he obtained a third interest in the Manchester Union. This was about 1867, and he became the local editor and re- porter of that newspaper. At the expiration of one year Mr. Moore disposed of his newspaper holding and formed a partnership with Charles J. Peaslee. This firm conducted a job printing business in the old Union building at the corner of Elm and Market streets, over the Manchester National Bank. After a time Mr. Moore purchased the interest of Mr. Peaslee and continued the business alone at the same place. A few years after he removed his plant to Nutfield Lane, where he was in business at the time of his death. Mr. Moore was upright, honest and conscientious in his business dealings. No man in this or any other community was more faithful to his word or more regardful of the obligation im- posed by that word. He was a bright, spirited and entertaining writer, and prepared some of the best papers ever heard on the geological history of this region. He was associated with the Unitarian Church, of which his mother had been a member, and gave largely of his time and means to that in- stitution. Mr. Moore was closely identified with the interests of the Manchester Institute, an organiza- tion for the furthering of science, art and literature. which had his hearty approval. He was especially interested in the work of the Manchester Historic Association, of which he was an incorporator, and to which he contributed a number of valuable pa- pers. He was also a member of the publication committee. In the old days he ran with the Massa- besic hand tub, then housed on a lot in the rear of the present site of the Baptist Tabernacle, and he was at one time clerk of the company. In late years he was a devotee to baseball, and he attended nearly all the league games near his home.
Mr. Moore was one of the best known and most prominent Knights of Pythias in New Hampshire. He was one of the first Pythians in Manchester.
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joining the order in ISTI, and was a member of Grante Lodge until the institution of Queen City Lodge, of which he became a charter member. He passed through all the chairs of the subordinate lodge, and had held several offices in the Grand Louge, at one time occupying the highest state office, that of grand chancellor. He was still further honored by selection as supreme representative for the state. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Grand Lodge committee on fraternal corres- pondence, an office he had held for many years; member of the committee on Pythian Home; men- ber of the committee on Pythian law ; and a member of the committee of foreign correspondence. A number of changes were made in these various com- nuttees as the years went by, but Mr. Moore was retained by each succeeding administration because of his familiarity with the business affairs and routine. He was a member of the endowment rank of the Knights of Pythias. He also held member- ship in the Order of Red Men, and the Royal Ar- canum.
He was a devoted student of bird life, and a great lover of birds, delighting to talk of their habits and songs. During the spring and summer months it was not an unusual sight to see him enjoy solitary rambles through the woodlands. In his home life no man could have attained greater perfection. He and his wife were in perfect accord, and his devotion and thoughtfulness to her and her friends were inat- ters of comment. His love of children was almost phenomenal, and they returned his affection in kind. He loved to be with them, to enter into their joys, and to make them happy. Personally he was of a most affable disposition. He always looked upon the best and brightest side of whatever came up in his hfe, and never permitted himself to brood over matters which could not be altered. He was a bright conversationalist, and his unvarying good nature was infections. His death occurred October 22, 1900, after a brief illness, and his loss is sincerely and deeply mourned throughout the community. Long before the time appointed for the funeral services, which were held at his late residence, No. 69 Harrison street, October 25. many friends of the dead man, who had been esteemed by so many, ar- rived, and the house was filled with mourners who had come to pay their last respects. The Rev. C. J. Staples, of the Unitarian Church, was the officiating clergyman. After prayer and the reading of an appropriate selection from the Bible, he delivered a short culogy, which was in part as follows :
"This day is such a day as he loved. This air, this flaming of the 'burning bush.' the hillsides clothed in royal colors, the quiet peace and sincerity that brood over the earth as if made for him. He would have felt their invitation, and though his feet turned toward the office and the workshop, his heart would be in the woodlands and his thoughts along the country by-ways. Others might know more of the facts of nature, the text book facts, but he was near to nature's heart. It was the genuine passion of his life and grew only stronger, sweeter and more complete with his years. Others might have more understanding of details, but 1 never knew one who so entered into the secret enjoyment and satisfaction of the world of creation or felt so deeply and truly the thrill of wonder and the glad humility that comes upon those who view nature as a whole, the embodiment of the thoughts of God. God speaks to the hearts of men in many ways' This was the reverent path William Moore's feet trod in
loving thought and meditation. He knew the Presence that we dare not name, the great, wide, wondrous Presence, so much deeper than our per- sonalities, so much stronger than our complaints, so much more patient than our whimpering. There he worshipped, as he has so often said, and it was with the simple purity of a little child. It seemed to me often, as 1 have met him returning from the walks where he was not alone, returning with a certain glow and gladness in his face, that in him the Bible sentence was fulfilled: Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.' Yes, even of the common and neglected, the hidden and inanimate world, he was an intimate. He loved to go down deep into the mysteries of their life and being. And this not for the purpose of dissection, laying bare their mystery, but that he might understand and ap- preciate them. He was as an elder brother to all the creatures of God.
"He was a friend of little children. If, as Frederika Bremer, the Swedish writer, used to say, 'Four things she was sure would be in Heaven, sun- shine, plenty of little children, flowers and pure air,' then will he be at home in God's garden-house of souls. Or perhaps he would rather have us say, and we will say it reverently in memory of him. that in these things he found his heaven here on earth. He knew the heart of a child because, however hard he might appear outwardly, within there was a corner that was gentle and tender, trusty and true. Some- times I know there was a burr about him, but it was unconsciously to him, his way of protecting his own strong inner feeling. He would not bare it to the eyes of the world. No man can do so without suffering.
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