Three Forks of the Kentucky River Historical Association

Biography

Harvey Moore

Material Submitted by John Sandlin and transcribed by Michelle Williams Cole

HARVEY MOORE, born in Owsley County in the year 1847, was a child of about three years at the time of his parents’ removal to Jackson county, where he was reared to manhood and where he has been continuously identified with farm industry from the time of his youth. As a young man he established his residence on his present farm near Welchburg, where during the long intervening years he has made his influence felt not only in productive agriculture but also as a loyal and public-spirited citizen. Prosperity has attended his well-directed activities and he is one of the highly respected citizens of the county in which he may consistently claim a Mede of pioneer honors. He is a stanch republican, and has long been an active member of the Reformed Church, of which his wife likewise was a devoted adherent.

Mrs. Moore, whose maiden name was Jane Powell, was born in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1850, and her death occurred on the old home farm near Welchburg in 1914, she having been a child at the time of the family removal to Jackson County. Of the children of Harvey and Jane (Powell) Moore the eldest is Martha, who is the wife of L. L. Minter, a farmer near Lawson, Missouri; Carter P., of this sketch, was the second in order of birth; Henry is a representative business man at Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, where he owns and operates a modern flour mill under the title of the Garrard Milling Company; Frances, who resides at Welchburg, is the widow of S.C. Goodman, who was a prosperous Jackson County farmer at the time of his death; Nancy is the wife of Wilson Settle, a farmer at Big Hill, Madison County; George C. is a lawyer and real-estate broker in the City of Cincinnati, Ohio; Rosa became the wife of T. S. Brannaman, who is a farmer near Wildie, Rockcastle County, and there her death occurred when she was thirty-six years of age; Dora is the wife of G. W. Davidson, a farmer near Welchburg, Jackson County; Charles is a manager of the telephone exchange at Lancaster, Garrard County; and Bertha remains with her father on the old homestead, where she has had charge of the domestic economies of the paternal home since the death of her mother.

From the foregoing brief record it will be seen that Carter P. Moore is in the most significant degree a scion of sterling pioneer stock in Kentucky. He gained his earlier education in the rural schools of Jackson County, also attended the high school at Stanford, Lincoln County, and he continued to attend school at intervals until he was twenty-one years old. In the mean while, at the age of eighteen years, he initiated his career as a teacher in the rural schools of his native county, and there stands to his credit twenty years of effective service as a teacher in the public schools. While thus engaged in the work of the pedagogic profession he busied himself also in preparing himself for the legal profession, and the year 1900 recorded his admission to the bar of his native state. In that year he began the practice of law at McKee, judicial center of Jackson County, where within the intervening period of somewhat more than twenty years he had built up a substantial and representative law business, involving his appearance in connection with much important litigation, both civil and criminal, in the courts of this section of the state. He owns his modern office building on Water Street, and also his attractive home property on the same street. His real-estate holdings include also an excellent farm of seventy-five acres eight miles southeast of McKee.

Mr. Moore is one of Jackson County’s loyal adherents of and workers in the republican part, and while he has had no desire for purely political office he served effectively as county attorney from 1909 to 1913 in the work of this office being in direct line with his regular profession. He and his wife are active members of the Reformed Church in their home village. At Welchburg he is affiliated with Royal Lodge No. 159, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand; and he has been from the time of its organization, in 1916, the recording secretary of McKee Council No. 165, Junior Order United American Mechanics. Mr. Moore was a vigorous and loyal supporter of the various local war activities during the nation’s participation in the World war. He served and still holds the position of chairman of the Jackson County Chapter of the Red Cross, was legal adviser of the County Draft Board, aided in all of the local drives in support of the Government war bond issues and Savings Stamps, and made his personal subscriptions as liberal as his resources justified. He received the nomination for county judge of Jackson County at the primary election August 6, 1921.

In January, 1900, Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss Mollie Jones, daughter of G. A. and Margaret (Anderson) Jones, the father having been a successful farmer near Tyner, Jackson County, at the time of his death, and his widow being now a resident of Richmond, Madison County. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have one son, Lloyd H., who was born October 28, 1900, and who was graduated from the Kentucky State Normal School at Richmond as a member of the class of 1920.