Representative Samuel Logan Moore View All Years

HON. SAMUEL LOGAN MOORE

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to prepare a memorial resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of Samuel Logan Moore, of Boone county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following:

Samuel Logan Moore was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1844, and died at his home in Boone, Iowa, on May 30th, 1921.

Early in his life his parents left Pennsylvania and settled near Bunker Hill, Illinois, and it was there that Mr. Moore entered the army service on April 25th, 1861, being barely seventeen years of age. He served in Company F, 7th Illinois Infantry, from that date until June, 1865 when he was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky.

During his army service his father passed away and in 1866 his mother brought her family west and settled in Boone, then the western terminus of the present North Western railroad system. He continued to reside in Boone until his death and was actively identified with the growth and progress of Iowa almost from its pioneer days.

The bare recital of the salient facts of the career of an individual can convey but little of those things which make history. Mr. Moore was essentially a self-made man. First a railroad employee, then becoming interested in commercial pursuits in widely varied lines but always an intense believer in the solemn duty of helping to make the world brighter and better and by continuous example exemplifying such belief.

He was a staunch Republican and was honored by municipal offices, and served in the House of Representatives in the Twenty-first General Assembly, believing such service was one of the duties of a good citizen. But when it came to matters of public nature such as the founding of a hospital for his community, or the numerous duties arising for those who could not enlist in war service he was most engaged, neither time nor means was spared by him during his busy life, and his community will long honor his memory in connection with those greater deeds which stand out in bold relief, and will serve to forever commemorate his life and public service.

He acquired a large fortune, maintained a beautiful home but was never married. In a charitable way, Mr. Moore was surpassed by few, if any, not only during his life time did he show this spirit. In his will he made provision for a goodly sum of money to be set aside as a Charity Fund whereby the worthy poor of his town and county might receive help.

As a pioneer, a soldier, a business man and a good citizen in all that the words imply, he did his full duty and left his impress on the affairs of his community and state.

Therefore, Be It Resolved, That in the passing of the Honorable Samuel Logan Moore, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, whose fidelity to duty, his faithfulness in every public and private trust and his splendid character should be an inspiration to all for a higher ideal in life.

Bt It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House as an expression of the life and worth of the deceased and copies thereof be transmitted to T. B. Moore and Mrs. W. H. Jayne, both of Des Moines, Iowa, his nearest surviving relatives.

W. S. CRISWELL,

PAUL N. ROBSON,

H. N. DONHOWE,

Committee.

Adopted April 12, 1923.