Husband John William Moore 1 2 3 4 5
Born: 16 Apr 1837 - Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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Died: 19 Feb 1893 6
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Father: Ebenezer Moore (1793- ) 3 4 5 7 8
Mother: Nancy Blackstone Hurst ( - ) 4 5 8 9 10
Marriage: 22 Nov 1860 5 11 12
• Additional Image: J. W. Moore.
• Additional Image: J. W. Moore.
Wife Elizabeth Stauffer 5 11 12 13
Born: - Connellsville, Fayette Co, PA
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Died: Aft 1918
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Father: Martin B. Stauffer (1817-1876) 5 11 12 13 14 15
Mother: Charlotte Hough ( - ) 13 15
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1 M Elmer E. Moore 11
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2 M Albert Braden Moore 11
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3 F Mary Joe Moore 11
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Spouse: G. Bowley Richardson ( - ) 11
Marr: 17 Jan 1889 11
4 F Luella Stauffer Moore 11 16 17
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Spouse: Hon. Edward Everett Robbins (1859- ) 18 19 20
Marr: 17 Dec 1896 or 1897 16 17
5 M James Pressley Moore 11
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6 F Irene Elizabeth Moore 11
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General Notes: Husband - John William Moore
He received his educational training in the common schools of his native township and Elder's Ridge academy. He afterward took a full business course at the Iron City Commercial college, from which he was graduated in 1856. He was reared in the simplicity of rural life, yet he manifested an ambition for business at an early age and was successfully engaged in stock-dealing before he had reached his eighteenth birthday. For over twenty years he was a well-known and extensive stock-dealer throughout the counties of Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene, and met with notable success. In 1873 he practically retired from stock-dealing and engaged in the greatest enterprise of his business life, by an investment in the Connellsville coke industry, at that time just attracting public notice. He entered into a partnership with James Cochran, Solomon Kiester and James Hurst, for the manufacture of coke at the Summit coke works, situated near Broad Ford, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. After six years he withdrew from this firm, purchased the Redstone coke-plant, three miles south of Uniontown, and engaged in the coke business with his brother, P. H. Moore. In 1881 Col. J. S. Schoonmaker was admitted as a partner, and four years later J. W. Moore withdrew. At that time the company was running four hundred ovens and employing five hundred men. In 1879 he bought two thousand acres of coal land in Mt. Pleasant township, Westmoreland County, where, with his accustomed energy he soon erected what is known as the "Mammoth coke works," and put into operation nearly six hundred ovens. In the spring of 1889 he increased his coke business by the purchase of the "Wynn coke works," above Uniontown, and successfully operated these plants until the latter part of the summer. On August 23, 1889, he disposed of his entire coke interests to the H. C. Frick Coke Company for considerably over one million dollars. This was by far the largest deal ever made in the coke business to that time, and at its consummation Mr. Moore practically withdrew from active business and began living a retired life at his home in Greensburg.
His investments in real estate were both extensive and profitable. He owned two fine properties in Greensburg besides fifteen valuable farms in Westmoreland, Fayette and Indiana counties. In 1889 Mr. Moore was engaged in coke manufacturing on a scale far exceeding anything hitherto attempted by individual enterprise in the Connellsville coke region. He was unassuming and honorable in his intercourse with his fellow-men, charitable in his judgment of others and firm in his convictions of what is right. In all his business enterprises J. W. Moore was sagacious, prudent, honorable and successful.
General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Stauffer
She was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was affiliated with almost every important philanthropic organization in the region. She took a particular interest in the welfare of children and was president of the Greensburg Home for Children and the Children's Aid Society of that city. She was also a member of the Polo Club and of the Country Club. It was she who gave the ground to Mount Pleasant township upon which its handsome High School stood, one of the finest in the county. She was also an active worker for the Red Cross Society and did much to stimulate interest therein through that part of the State. It was Mrs. Moore who built the first mausoleum in St. Clair's Cemetery, which was erected in honor of her husband, and it was she also who presented the cemetery with its handsome gates in memory of her children. Another benefaction of Mrs. Moore was that of the presentation of the plot of land upon which the New Christian church of Greensburg was built.