History of the great Kanawha Valley, with family history and biographical sketchesA statement of its natural resources, industrial growth and commercial advantages . ct of our sketch, was given a fair educationin youth, but was reared to work on the farm. At the age oftwenty-two years he entered the National Normal, at Lebanon,Ohio, where he completed a scientific course and was graduatedin 1875. In 1876 he began teaching school, which he continueduntil about 1882, meeting with decided success in his educationalcareer. In 1884 he was elected by the people as clerk of the cir-cuit court at Poin
History of the great Kanawha Valley, with family history and biographical sketchesA statement of its natural resources, industrial growth and commercial advantages . ct of our sketch, was given a fair educationin youth, but was reared to work on the farm. At the age oftwenty-two years he entered the National Normal, at Lebanon,Ohio, where he completed a scientific course and was graduatedin 1875. In 1876 he began teaching school, which he continueduntil about 1882, meeting with decided success in his educationalcareer. In 1884 he was elected by the people as clerk of the cir-cuit court at Point Pleasant, of which office he is the presentefficient incumbent. In November, 1885, he was united in matri-mony with Miss Emma E. Mallory, of Racine, Ohio. The re-sult of this union has been the birth one child, Eva L. may be properly described as a self-made man, and itcan be stated with equal truth that he is an excellent citizen inall the duties appertaining to that title. Charles Page Thomas Moore was born in Lewisburg, ,then Virginia, on February 8, 1831. Plis paternal grandfatherwas Joseph Moore, who wedded Mary Ellen Morgan, sister of. _-r - - , , ? . .. ? . <&.£7. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES — MASON COUNTY. 93 Gen. Daniel Morgan, of Virginia, and became the progenitor ofthe following offspring: Nancy, Morgan, Thomas, George andMorris. Thomas Moore was born in Shenandoah county, Va.,and married Augusta Delphia Page, a native of Augusta county,Va., and unto them were born the following named children:Vincent, Mary E., and Charles Page Thomas. The father ofthe before mentioned children died in Lewisburg, W. Va., in1832. The mother, after a second marriage, departed this life atLewisburg, in 1844. Vincent, the oldest of the children, now re-sides in Kentucky. The sister and subject of this sketch wereadopted by their uncle, George Moore, and his wife, who becamethe foster parents of these orphans. George Moore was a nativeof Shenandoah county, Va., an
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