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AFB #826: Floyd D.Moore, Sr., interred: Feb. 3, 1970 by wife: Marian C. Moore, 6715 SE 20th, Portland, Oregon.
1900 NE CENSUS Floyd Moore (b May 1888, Nebraska) enumerated with mother Esther (b Apr 1860, Pennsylvania, married 22y but husband not with family, mother of 7 children, 6 living at time of census) and 4 siblings, all born in Nebraska, Eunice (b Dec 1885), Flor (b Nov 1890), Adell (b Nov 1892) and James D. (b Mar 1899)
WWI Draft Registration Card Floyd Delos Moore, 29, 525½ Court, Dallas, Polk co, Oregon; b 4 May 1888, Moorefield, Nebraska; occupation school supervisor; single
MARRIAGE - Marion C. Bliven md Floyd D. Moore 24 Aug 1919 in Multnomah Co., Oregon
1920 OR CENSUS Floyd D. Moore (31y, b Nebraska,) enumerated with wife Marion C. (27y, b Kansas)
1930 OR CENSUS - Floyd D. Moore, age 42, occupation attorney, b. Nebraska, is enumerated with wife Marion C., age 37, b. Kansas, along with Floyd D. Jr., age 7, b. Oregon, and Marion, age 3y 10m, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is Lucy E. Smith, identified as servant, age 65, widow, b. California.
1940 OR CENSUS Floyd D. Moore (51y, b Nebraska, occupation attorney) enumerated with wife Marion C. (47y, b Kansas) and 2 children, Floyd Jr (17y, b Oregon) and Marion (13y, b Oregon); family was living in same house in 1935
WWII Draft Registration Card Floyd Deloss Moore, 54, 6715 SE 20th Ave, Portland, Oregon; b 4 May 1888, Moorefield, Nebraska; person who knows address wife, same address
BIOGRAPHY Floyd D. Moore, now serving for a second term as county clerk and recorder of Polk county, is a courteous and obliging official, thoroughly fitted for the work of his office, into which he has introduced a number of new methods and short cuts which have greatly facilitated the discharge of his duties, making his services very valuable to the public. He has also gained prominence as an educator and is a man of broad culture and high intellectual attainments.
Mr Moore was born at Moorefield, Nebraska, May 4, 1888, and is a son of A.A. and E.A. Moore, natives of Illinois, where the father followed farming pursuits. Subsequently, he went to Nebraska and there took up land, which he cleared and developed, his father and two brothers also becoming residents of that part of the state, and it was upon a portion of this land that the town of Moorefield was later founded, being named in honor of the family. In 1901 A.A. Moore drove across the country to Wyoming, settling in Wheatland, where for three years he engaged in the transfer business. He then made the overland trip to Oregon, first locating in Morrill, where he conducted a dairy for a year, at the end of which time he removed to Talent, Oregon, and there resided for some time. In 1912 he became a resident of Monmouth, Oregon, purchasing a farm on which he still makes his home, being now sixty-nine years of age, while the mother is sixty-one.
Their son, Floyd D. Moore, pursued his education in the schools of Nebraska and Wyoming. He accompanied his parents on their removal to the Pacific coast country, driving a mule team from Wyoming to Oregon. Desirous of securing the best education obtainable, he worked his way through the normal school at Ashland, Oregon, where he injured his hip in a game of football. His work in that institution later enabled him to secure a life certificate by examination in 1917 as a teacher in the schools of the state and he then filled various positions in Portland.
In 1910 he went to Portland and later followed work as foreman for a contractor, doing concrete and excavation work. In the year 1912 he became injured while working in this capacity, which necessitated the removal of his hip joint. After recovery from this operation he became engaged in teaching school in the state of Washington and later was principal at Marquam in Clackamas county, Oregon. He was principal of the Sylvan school near Portland for two years. During this time he decided to enter the regular profession and became a student in the night school of the North Western College of Law where he remained for a year and also pursued a business course during the same time in the Lincoln high school, attending the night sessions in the above mentioned schools. Subsequently be became assistant superintendent of schools of Polk county, in which position he served for three years, most capably performing his work in that connection. Previous to this, however, he had still furthered qualified for educational work by attendance at the Monmouth (Ore) Normal school, where he was an active member of the council of the student body and also gained prominence as an orator. He thus became exceptionally well fitted for his work as an educator, imparting clearly and readily to others the knowledge that he had acquired and dong much to improve the curriculum and the methods of instruction followed in the county. He had ever held to high ideals in relation to the schools and has contributed in marked measure to the educational advancement of the state. He has not, however, abandoned his desire to become a member of the legal profession and is still pursuing his law studies. In 1918 Mr Moore was elected to the office of county clerk and recorder of Polk county and his excellent service in that connection led to his reelection without opposition, so that he is still in that office. He is systematic, prompt and accurate in his work and all departments of the office are efficiently managed, his services proving most satisfactory to the public. He has also made investments in farm lands and his determined spirit and laudable ambition have been salient features in the attainment of success.
On the 24th of August, 1919, Mr Moore was united in marriage to Miss Marion Bliven of Salem, Oregon, who for several years was a successful teacher in the Polk county schools. In his political views Mr Moore is a republican, doing everything in his power to advance the welfare of the party and promote its success. He is prominent and active in public affairs in his section of the state and served as chairman of the Roosevelt Memorial Association of Polk county, while for two years he has been president of the local Chautauqua Association. He is a member of the city council and his influence is always on the side of progress and improvement. His wife is a member of the Methodist church and her life is influenced by its teachings. Fraternally Mr Moore is identified with the Masonic order, in which he has held office, and he also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, being a past chancellor commander of the lodge. He is also connected with Abd-Uhl Atef Temple of the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan at Portland and with the Modern Woodmen of America, serving as clerk in the last named order at Dallas, Oregon. Mr Moore is ever ready to give his support to measures for the promotion of the public welfare and as a county official he has discharged his duties in such a way as to earn the encomiums of the general public. He is a self-made man and is deserving of much credit for what he has accomplished, for he started out in life empty-handed and has worked his way steadily upward by persistent energy and unfaltering enterprise. His record should serve to inspire and encourage others, showing what may be achieved when there is the will to dare and to do.
Charles Henry Carey, History of Oregon (Portland: Pioneer Historical Publishing Company, 1922), Volume II, pp 245-246
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