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JOHN WILLIAM MOORE, machine works executive and legislator, died at Ontario, California, June 17, 1955; born in Nicholas county, West Virginia, March 18, 1880; son of John William Moore, Sr. and Ella Iowa (Malcolm) Moore, the latter’s father being Dr. John S. Malcolm, who pioneered to Iowa in 1948, homesteaded near Mount Pleasant, and built the first brick house there, making the brick in a hand mold, the mother born in this house in 1860, and named for the state; attended public school at Cross Lanes, West Virginia, and high school at Fayettesville, West Virginia; graduated in mechanical and electrical engineering at Scranton, Pennsylvania; learned the machinist’s trade in the South Side Foundry and Machine Works at Charleston, West Virginia; married Mayme Price of Charleston, November 6, 1913; came to Sioux City in 1907, and established Moore’s Machine Works there, of which he was the owner and operator; a Methodist and a Democrat; served as state representative from Woodbury county in the Forty-sixth, Forty-sixth extra session and the Forty-seventh General Assemblies of Iowa, and was a member of the Iowa Pioneer Lawmakers association; survived by his widow, who resides at 5043 W. A. street, Ontario, California.