The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-25
LEADER IN CIVIL WAR TINE
Announcement Of Death Of Well Loved
Soldier Comes as Great Shock to
Friends in Kenosha - Won High
Honor as Soldier In the Field.
(Fron TUESDAYS Daily).

(Froin Tuesdays Daily.
Colonel Webster Porter Moore, aged
eighty-one years, commander Of the
Loyal Legion of Wisconsin and one of
the most respected and best loved of
the citizens of Kenosha, died at the
Hahnemann Hospital in Chicago at an
early hour this morning. The an
nouncement of the death of Col. Moore
came as a great shock to friends in,
Kenosha as few of his close friends
had known Of his serious illness. COL
Moore had gone to Chicago on last
Friday to submit to an operation and
he was under the surgeon IS care on
Saturday. He had recovered from the
| effects of the operation, but during the
night he was stricken with apoplexy
and death came early this morning
An hour after the announcement of his
death in Kenosha, Mrs. Moore received
| a post card which he had written late
Monday afternoon. It was a cheerful
message in which he expressed hope
of an early return home,
4 ny uOdOH VI aOUl. NMOOI0 HidIhS tu6
passing Of one Of the most distinguish
ed leaders of the Union army during
the great Civil War.
| Col. Moore was a native of Lunen-
burg, vt. He was son Of Holland
and Meribah Marion Cheney Moore.
He was born July 4, 1886.
Two years after the birth of Col
Moore his parents moved to Wisconsin
and settled at Beloit, where Col. Moore
was reared to manhood. He attended
the schools of Beloit and later entered
Beloit College from which institution
| he was graduated in 1853 IS a member
of one Of the first graduating classes
of the college. He studied law for two
years and was admitted to the bar
in 1860.
| At the outbreak of the Civil War,
COL Moore helped to raise a company
for the three months service, being
pany and in June Of 1861 he was made
captain of Company 3 of the Fourth
| Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. lie
served with the army continuously I'M
til October 6, 1866. He was made a
major in 1868, lieutenant colonel in
the latter part of the same year, and
in 1864 he was made colonel Of the
regiment, which In the meantime had
been changed over to cavalry regi-
ment. He saw notable service in the
war and had personal part in many
of the most bitter battles between the
north and the south. He had part in
the capture of New Orleans, was with
the army at Vicksburg and fought in the
battle which ended in the capture
of Mobile
At the close of the war Col. Moore
| turned his attention to railroading at
which he continued for twenty-five
years, being principally with the G. B.
& @. Railway. Later he was named as
assistant superintendent of the Santa
Fe lines with headquarters in Chi
cago. When he retired from the rail
way work he came to Kenosha county
and for years was actively engaged in
farming. Col. Moore had made his home
in Kenosha for the past six years.
In his personal life Col. Moore was
one of the most lovable of men and
to those who knew him in an in
innate manner his death has come
as a great sorrow.
/ Col Moore was twice married. On
October s, 1864 at Beloit, he was mar
ried to Miss Ellen M. O'Neill who
died at Quincy, H., February 5, 1887.
In 1911 Col Moore was married in Ke-
nosha to Mrs. Elizabeth M. O'Neill
! Calkins.
Their home life had been happy
comradeship in the years that follow
ed their marriage and the widow to-
day is stricken with great sorrow.
Col. Moore is survived by his
widow and one daughter, Mrs. Milton
K. Weems of Quincy, III.
In politics Col. Moore was a Repub-
lican and while he had never sought a
public Office he had taken a great in
terest in the affairs Of the nation. He
had been active in many patriotic or
/ CARNATIONS. He was a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution; The
Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of
the Republic. At the last state gath
ering of the Wisconsin chapter of
the Loyal Legion he was unanimous
Ily elected commander.
He was for years a member of the
Masonic order and had taken an ac-
tive part in the work Of the order.
THE remains will be buried at the
old home in Beloit md announcement
of the time of the funeral will be
made on Wednesday.