Henry Gore was born in Scotland. The source of this claim is a letter dated 4 November 1931 from Dr. C. S. Goar, 740 Bankers Trust Building, Indianapolis, Indiana to his cousin Joseph Elmer Goar, Kansas city, Missouri. The first two paragraphs of this letter are as follows:

The history of the Gore family, as I will give it, was obtained from a statement given to me by my father, and is substantiated from the History of Cass, Miami, Howard and Tipton Counties, Vol. II, page 784, published in 1898 by the Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois.

In speaking of James Gore, the following is the record, as given of his father, "his father, Henry Gore, was a native of Scotland, lived in Ireland and England, and emigrated to America when a young man, locating in Virginia, near Wheeling, where he died in 1791, while still comparatively a young man. By occupation, he was a trader."

Further down in this same letter, Dr. Goar commented on what was an error in the referenced history book when he stated:

The above statement in regard to the location of Henry Gore, at Wheeling, Virginia, is no doubt a mistake, as my father, Henry Goar, so informed me, after the History of Cass, Miami, Howard and Tipton Counties was published. He saying "it was a mistake," and should say "in Monroe County, Virginia."

As stated earlier, Henry Gore was born in Middlesex County, Virginia. He was never located in Monroe County. He raised two families totalling thirteen children in what is now Shenandoah County, Virginia where he also died on the 1st of April 1791. When he died he was 54 1/2 years of age which hardly qualifies him as a young man. All available evidence indicates that Henry Gore was a farmer, not a trader.

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