Husband Presley H. Moore 1 2 3 4
Born: 7 Feb 1839 - Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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Father: Ebenezer Moore (1793- ) 2 4 5 6 7
Mother: Nancy Blackstone Hurst ( - ) 3 4 6 7 8
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General Notes: Husband - Presley H. Moore
He came with his parents to Tyrone township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, when six years of age, and was educated at the Mt. Pleasant Classical Institute and continued to work on his father's farm until 1879. In 1879 he removed to Uniontown and with his brother, J. W. Moore, engaged in the coke business, the name of the firm being "The Redstone Coke Company, Limited." In 1881 Col. J. S. Schoonmaker was admitted as a partner. In 1885 J. W. Moore retired from the firm, disposing of his interest to P. H. Moore and Colonel Schoonmaker.
The Redstone Coke Works, owned and operated by P. H. Moore, were situated three miles south of Uniontown, at Brownfield Station, on the S. W. P. R. R. The property embraced over nine hundred acres of coal land, with a frontage of two miles along the railroad. On May 1, 1881, there were only seventy-five ovens, later Moore & Co. came to have 450 ovens and employ about five hundred men. Two excellent stone-quarries were opened near the ovens and quite a town was building on the property. A reservoir and a mountain stream afforded an abundance of water for coke or other manufacturing purposes. These works were known as "Moore's Works."
Presley H. Moore was one of the prominent business men of Fayette county. For many years he successfully conducted one of the large businesses of one of the great manufacturing industries in the United States.