Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-03-29
CAPT. MOORnOUSE.
In His Death Burleigh Coun.
y Looses One Of Her
Best Citizens =. ri.

The death of Capt. W. S. Moorhouse
removes from Bismarck one of her
most respected citizens and oldest
residents. Identified as he has been
with the social, political and Industrial
features of the capital city-loyal to
friends and party, progressive, enter
prising and liberal in commercial life
pure and unselfsh in civil life, inter-
ested in church and school work, i'm
bued with civic pride-no citizen will
be more keenly missed. In the early
days he was engaged in the hardware
business, but failing health, owing to
close utilization with business, necessi-
tated temporary withdrawal from &C
tive life. Chosen for county auditor he
made good to his party and his con-
|stituents and his ten years continuous
service in the county building made a
record to be proud of and established
standard of integrity and fidelity
that we'll may be envied. He was an
unassuming man, approachable, sym
pathetic and kind. He was a gener-
GUS character and charitable to a
fault. His loyalty to friends was
characteristic we'll developed and his
partizanship, though positive, was SO
free from bias-prejudice and revenge
were so foreign to his make up-he
was indeed a model citizen, a true and
| courteous gentleman.
Captain Moorhouse was born at
Brownsville, Pa, January rs, 1840
His parents, Edward and Margaret
Moorhouse, were natives of England
his father being leading coal deal
er of the Monogahela valley. William
attended the local schools, among his
playfellows being James G. Blaine. At
the age of II he went to Kansas with
Col. John A. Martin and family, being
drawn there by the struggle of the
free sellers with whom he was, even
lat that early age, in deep sympathy.
He located at Atchison and entered
actively into free state politics for
a year and then became a clerk in a
hardware store.
:, When the war broke out he enlisted
as private in Company K, First
Kansas, for three months service,
but the company was never mustered
in, SO on September 10, 1861. he en-
listed in Company B, First Kansas
cavalry subsequently the SEVENTH at
Fort Leavenworth. He was shortly
afterward elected and commissioned
second lieutenant, and the following
April, upon the death of his captain
succeeded him at the age OF %. He
was honorably discharged March 7
1865.
The Seventh Kansas belonged tic
the famous Sixteenth corps, Army OF
the Tennessee, and served under
Grant, Sherman, Mcpherson, Rosen.
Grams, Logan and A. ]. Smith The
captain participated in the battles of
1uka, Corinth, the seige of Vicksburg,
and saw severe service in the Mis-
souri, and Mississippi campaigns
In 1859 he was appointed adjutant
general of the state of sKansas and
served two years, and early became a
member of the Grand Army of the
Republic in which he served as post
'!commander in Kansas and in Bis
marck.
In the midst of the war, April 20,
1863, Captain Moorhouse married Miss
Annie Holtham, who was then but 16
years old, and for the balance of the
war she was with him most of the
time in the field. Their oldest son
died when five years old, Frank being
the sole surviving son. He is now in
Atchison, where he will make his
!, future home with his family of wife
and three children, who will accom-
pany Mrs. Moorhouse and the Cap
tain's remains to that place tomorrow
Captain Moorhouse and family came
to Bismarck in March, 1888, where the
captain was gagged in the hardware
business for some years. For ten
years prior to last spring the captain
!, was the auditor of Burleigh county
and no public servant ever gave more
general satisfaction. His health fail
ing him he declined to again run for
the office and laid down the cares of
official life April l. last year, since
which time he steadily failed in
health until the peaceful end came
yesterday afternoon at 4:3O O'Clock.
The captain was one of the charter
members and the first chancellor COM
mandeT of the local lodge of knights
Iof Pythias and through his long mem
bership in the order has been one of
it's devoted members. He was also a
member of James B. Mcpherson Post
of this city, having been post COM
Imander and at the time of his death
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