Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-02
CHARLES E. MOORE
Passed Away at his Home Last
Tuesday Morning-Buried
by Odd Fellows.

Judge SHdIleS z. MOOT ulSu
about 10 O'Clock a. III. on Tues
day, the 2eth day of November,
1904, at his home on his farm,
FIVE miles north of Corvallis,
where he has resided continuously
since 1866, except at short inter-
walls when he was Postmaster at
Corvallis and Superintendent OF
the State Blind School at Salem.
In 1862 he was elected County
Judge of Polk County and served
one term Of four years ably and
faithfully as Judge of that coun-
ty, since that time he has been
falniliarly known by his acquain-
tances throughout the state as
Judge Moor. For the first six
years OF his life Judge Moor lived
in Salem, New York, where he
was born April IS, 1923, and
where his father, john Moor,
was also born. The elder Moor
married May Davis, native of
Vermont, and settled in the
Green Mountain state when his
son was six years of age. Here
the youth grew to manhood on
farm. and received his education
in the public schools and at
neighboring academy.
Judge Moor's career of self
support began with his eighteenth
year, when he entered the woolen
mills, and at the end of three
years found employment in the
cotton mills of Lowell. Mass. In
1851 he decided to go west and
seek more rapid means of pro-
motion, so boarded a steamer
called the Empire City of New
York, fellow-passengers with him
being Chief Justice Nelson and
Surveyor General Preston, as
we'll as other United States
officers of prominence. From
the Isthmus of Panama the
travellers came to San Francisco
on the trial trip of the Columbia,
just out of the docks, and upon
reaching his destination Mr..
Moor went at once to Oregon,
locating in Milwaukee. FROM
there he walked to Oregon City
and after spending a couple of
months went up theriver to Polk
county. Here he engaged in
school teaching at Bridgeport for
several years, and in the mean
time purchased a mans right to
a claim of one hundred and sixty
acres, upon which he lived until
1862. In 1857 he married Miss
Marjory J. johnson. and con-
tinued to teach and farm inter.
mittently until elected county
Judge in 1862. During his four
years of service he lived in
Dallas most of the time, and
after finishing his term he moved
to his farm, where he resided at
the time of his death, and which
consists of three hundred acres,
FIVE miles north of Corvallis on
the Southern Pacific railroad.
Here he has engaged in farming
and stock raising, owning one of
the really fine and valuable pro-
perties in Benton county.
Always a stanch Republican,
Mr.. Moor was elected to the
legislature in 1891, and during
his term of service acceptably
represented his district; an astute
and forceiul upholder of the best
interests of those who had honor
ed him with their trust. Judge
Moor has been identified with
the Odd Fellows for sixty years,
he was a stanch advocate of
higher education, and has given
his children every advantage in
his power. Arthur J., the eldest
son, is a rancher near Sprague,
Wash. John died while young;
Hiram, deceased in 1902, was
educated at the Oregon Agri-
cultural College at Corvallis, and
subsequently practiced law at
Stephenson, Wash. and Persis J.
the wife of George Lindeman,
living on the home farm. Judge
Moor was one OF the substantial
and highly honored members of
the community of Benton coun-
ty and his participation in many
of its affairs has been a highly
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