The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-12-19
ALEXANDER MOORE DEAD

Sank Centres Original Settler
and Most Prominent
Citizen at Rest.
MOORE-At his residence in this
city at 5 a. M, Friday, December
90, 1901, of old age, Alexander
Moore, in the seventy-ninth year
of his age.
The funeral will be held on Sun
day afternoon at two O'Clock.
Alexander Moore, was born in the
District of Columbia in 1895, his
father, John Moore having been for
many years a school teacher there
and in Pennsylvania and Michigan.
His grandfather was an officer in the
army during the Revolutionary war
and his father served his country in
the war of 1919, participating, un-
der Gen. Winder, in the defense of
the city of Washington against the
British forces under Gen. Ross in
1914. His mothers maiden name
was Rachel Evans.
When Mr.. Moore was about sew
en- years old the family moved to
Pennsylvania, settling near Bedford,
: and nine years later to Monroe,
Mich. He received an education
such as the common schools then
afforded, and learned the trade of
maehinist, and during several years
worked at his trade at Albion, Mich,
where he had foundry, forming a
partnership with Joseph Hall of
Rochester, n. Y, for the manufac-
ture of threshing machines. In the
year Is49 he went to California by
the overland route, and among the
incidents of his trip he often related
to his friends the fact of his trading
horses with Brigham Young at Salt
Lake City. He was five months on
the way, reaching California with
out dollar. He at once went to
work in the mines on his own ac-
count, and by energy and industry
amassed considerable money. He
returned to Michigan at the end of
a year, and again went to Califor-
MIA, this time, as he had returned,
by the Panama isthmus route.
Upon his second return, in the
Of 1QS1 hn rnppaua1
his family to St. Anthony, now a
part os Minneapolis, built home
and soon became largely interested
in real estate. He owned at one
time a large portion of north Min
neapolis, and, with other parties,
plated s:Bassett, Moore & Cases
Addition and Cease & Moore's
Addition to Minneapolis. He al
so acquired interests in many town
sites throughout the state: Fair Ha-
ven, Clear Water, Little Falls and
others, many of which are now
thriving cities of the northwest,
thus indicating the sound judgment,
wisdom and business sagacity of the
man. He was the second merchant
in Minneapolis proper, traded there
until the autumn of 1857, when he,
like many other merchants, sue
cumbed to the effects of the great
financial panic and lost his all.
Mr.. Moore, with John Jackins
and Joseph Dean, constituted the
first board of county commissioners
of Hennepin county, Mr.. Moore
being it's chairman. The board
held its first meeting on October
81, 1852, at the home of the late
Col. John III. Stevens in Minneapo-
lis, and at an adjourned meeting
held on October %, 1852, the board
established Minneapolis as the
county seat of Hennepin county. At
a subsequent meeting, held soon
thereafter, the board established
school district No. L, covering the
entire county of Hennepin, and Or
dered school house built cat or
near Albion" Mr.. Moore being
from Albion, Mich, desired that
the proposed new town should bear
that name, and in fact it did for
some little time.
Prior to 1857 Mr.. Moore had
made himself well acquainted
throughout the state, and with its
advantages and resources; had visit
ed the Red River country, and the
territory lying south and west of
where the city of Sank Centre now
stands was familiar to him, for in
1856 he had brought gang of men
from Minneapolis, and during the
winter built dam across the Sank
river at this point, there being then
no settlement nor house. within
twenty-five miles. He moved his
family to Sank Centre in 1868 and