The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . fondest expectation. His business hasincreased constantly, and in 1874 the present com-pany was formed, with Mr. Moore as its company took .the contract for handling
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . fondest expectation. His business hasincreased constantly, and in 1874 the present com-pany was formed, with Mr. Moore as its company took .the contract for handlingall the material used in the construction of theNew York and Brooklyn elevated roads and theBrooklyn bridge. Its facilities for handling freightare not now (1892) sufllcient to meet the demands ofits rapidly growing business, caused by the enormousbuilding opei-atious undertaken in New York cityand Brooklyn, and the company is constantly build-ing more boats, which Mr. Moore designs, and at-tends personally to the construction. He is theowner and designer of the engines of the steamlaunch Pampero, which has made for itself a reputa-tion for the greatest speed of any boat of its Mr. Moores summer residence is situated onLake George, where the Pampero made its was married, in 1866, to Marietta H. Christie,and has three children, two sons and one daughter. OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 253 ?. COGGESHALL, Henry J., lawyer, was bornot WaterviUe, Oneida county, N. Y., Apr. 38,1845,son of James S. Coggeshall, a well-known physician,whose ancestors emigrated from England in 1633with Ann Plutchinson, and settled in from that colony on account of their relig-ious convictions, they went to Rhode Island, whereJ ohn Coggeshall became provisional governor. Hen-ry J. Coggeshalls grandfather, when a young man,settled in Chenango county, N. Y., where he heldseveral local offices, and served asa soldier in the war of 1813. Herose to the rank of colonel of t
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