Representative Samuel Hill Moore View All Years

HON. SAMUEL H. MOORE.

MR. SPEAKER—Your committee appointed to prepare and present suitable resolutions respecting the life, character, and public service of the Honorable Samuel H. Moore, who represented Wayne county in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies, beg leave to report the following:

The Honorable Samuel H. Moore, who represented the county of Wayne in this House in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies, died at his home in Humeston, Iowa, August 20, 1912, aged sixty-six years. Mr. Moore was a native of the county of Greene, Pennsylvania, where he was born March 9, 1845. He remained at his home until in response to the country’s call for men he entered the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry whence he was transferred to the Eighty-eight. With that regiment he participated in many of the hard battles of the war as the struggle drew to a close. Returning home, he remained there until 1870, when he came to Iowa, settling in the county of Wayne. There he engaged in farming, gathering into his possession a large tract of land, well stocked with improved breeds of cattle.

He held repeatedly the local offices of township and school district as well as being for six years supervisor of the county. In 1892 he entered the General Assembly and at that legislature he introduced a bill and had it passed requiring owners of osage orange and other fences along the highway to keep them trimmed. The act as he framed it with few modifications, is substantially the law to-day on the subject. In both sessions he was on the committees on railroads, agriculture, and mines and mining and in 1894 was chairman of committee on claims. He was very watchful as to expenditures, repeatedly voting against appropriations and entering on the Journal his reasons for so acting. The embarrassed condition of the country’s business seemed principally to enter into Mr. Moore’s thought as to needed legislation. His was the course of a sincere man.

Mr. Moore was married in 1868 to Miss Martha Scott, daughter of Elias Scott, like himself a native of Pennsylvania. He is survived by his wife and son, D. Moore, of Humeston, and another son, W. T. Moore of Shamrock, Tenn., and one daughter, Mrs. J. W. Fisher of Centerville, Iowa.

Resolved, That in his death his family, to whom we extend our heartfelt sympathy, is deprived of a kind and affectionate husband and father, and the county and state of a worthy and loyal citizen, therefore be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House and the Chief Clerk instructed to mail an engrossed copy to the wife and children of the deceased.

J. E. DOZE,

M. F. THOMPSON,

CLARK W. HUNTLEY,

Committee.

Adopted April 17, 1913.