Source: History of Boone County, Indiana, by Hon. L.M. Crist, 1914.

JAMES B. MOORE. The history of Boone county reveals the handiwork of many a noble
worker who wrought heroically and unselfishly. Her smiling fields and splendid homes, her
high-grade institutions, her happy prospering people speak volumes of someone's strength
of arm, courage of heart, activity of brain--of someone's sacrifice. But time, that grim
obliterator before whose destroying fingers even the stubborn granite must, in the end
succumb, is ever at his work of disintegration. Beneath his blighting touch even memory
fails, and too often a life of glorious achievement is forgotten in a day. Lest we forget,
then, this tribute to James B. Moore and his family is penned. Pioneer, successful tiller of
the soil and public-spirited citizen, a courageous, kindly, generous man, it is the desire of
the biographer, as it must be of all who know him, that his deeds and his character be
recorded for the benefit of those who follow after. By no means rich, as worldly
possessions are estimated, he is rich in a thousand thronging memories of the rugged days
long passed.

Mr. Moore was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, July 18, 1831. He is a son of Peter and
Rachel (Morris) Moore. The father was born in North Carolina and the mother in New
Jersey. The maternal grandfather, Joseph Morris, was a native of Ireland and the maternal
grandmother, Elizabeth Morris, was a native of New Jersey. The paternal grandparents,
Jacobband Mary Ann (Stegerwault) Moore, were natives of Pennsylvania. They were all
early settlers in Dearborn county, Indiana. Grandfather Moore died in 1833 of cholera, and
later his widow located in Boone county where her death occurred. About 1837,
grandfather Morris brought his family to Boone county and here he and his wife both died.
Peter Moore and wife, parents of our subject, were married in Dearborn county, Indiana
and in 1836 removed to. Boone county, locating in Marion township, where Mr. Moore
entered one hundred and sixty acres from the government. It was wild land, heavily
timbered. He erected a log cabin on the same and cleared and placed many acres under
cultivation, enduring the hardships of the usual pioneer, but he was a hard worker and
nothing daunted him. Here his death occurred in 1860, his wife having preceded him to the
grave in August, 1842. They were the parents of seven children, three of whom are living
at this writing, James B., of this review, is the oldest; George lives in Indianapolis, Indiana;
William W. resides in Alvin, Texas.

James B. Moore grew to manhood on the home farm where he worked hard when a boy,
assisting his father clear and develop the home place. He received such education as the
old-time schools, taught in log school houses afforded. He remained with his parents until
his marriage on October 31, 1873 to Nancy Ann Scott, a native of Boone county, and a
daughter of Harvey and Russie (Hickerson) Scott, natives of Kentucky, from which state
they came to Boone county, Indiana, when young and here they were married.

After his marriage Mr. Moore located on forty acres, twenty-five acres of which was
cleared, of land he had purchased in Marion township, this county. Here he resided about
six years, getting a good start in life, then traded his farm to his sister for a part of the
homestead, on which he moved and where he has since resided. He later purchased forty
acres additional of the old home place from his sister. He has it all under cultivation, except
some scattering timber which he has in pasture. He has been very successful as a general
farmer, and is making a specialty of raising Poland-China hogs, Jersey cows and a good
grade of horses. He continued hard and active work up to 1898, since which time he has
done little more than merely oversee his farm, leaving the actual work on his son. He has
the following children: Joseph H. is living in Marion township; Charles E., who conducts
the home farm is married and has a daughter, and the family lives with our subject and
wife, constituting a mutually helpful and happy household.

Politically, Mr. Moore is a Republican, and in religious matters belongs to the Methodist
Protestant church.

HICKERSON MOORE MORRIS SCOTT STEGERWAULT

Submitted by Amy K Davis