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SOURCE: Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan
        Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL - 1895

        [Page 138-139]

        GEORGE MOORE. -- The biographer is now permitted to touch upon
     the life history of one of the leading citizens and popular officials
     of Au Train, Michigan, a self-made man and one in every way worthy
     of consideration on these pages, -- George Moore, Recorder of Deeds
     and ex-Sheriff of Alger county.
        He was born in New York State, April 10, 1850.  Benjamin Moore, his
     father, was a son of Irish parents and was by occupation a lumber
     dealer.  He moved to Ontario in 1851 and located at Colborne, where he
     spent the remainder of his life, dying there in 1862, at about the age
     of fifty years.  His wife, Susan, was a daughter of Peter Moore, a
     Canadian farmer.  She still resides in the old town of Colborne, and
     at this writing is seventy-four years of age.  Of her four children,
     we record that Sarah Jane died at the age of two years; Lewis is de-
     ceased; George is the gentleman whose name graces this article; and
     William is a resident of Lake View, Michigan.
        George Moore received only a very limited education in his youth,
     being obliged to quit school at the early age of ten years in order to
     go to work.  He did farm work on the home place from that time until
     he was thirty years of age, when he came to Michigan.  On his arrival
     in this State he was employed in a shingle mill at Trufant, near
     Greenville, his employers being Hillman, Hesser & Company.  Three
     years later, in 1883, he came to the upper peninsula and located at
     Black River, where he began making shingles for JOHN GILCHRIST and
     where he remained three years.  His next location was in Alger county
     and his employer a Mr. GIBBS, and from there he went to Newberry and
     for eighteen months was engaged in the manufacture of shingles for Mr.
     J. E. WHITE.  Returning to the employ of Mr. GIBBS, this time at Au
     Train, he worked for him a portion of two summers, and subsequently
     for Mr. J. M. CARR at Singleton for one or more seasons.  Then, coming
     back to Au Train, he spent one summer in fishing.  In the fall of 1892
     he was brought out as the Democratic candidate for County Sheriff and
     was duly elected, receiving a majority of two votes.  In this office
     his nerve and courage stood him in good stead and he rendered a high
     degree of satisfaction to all concerned, his duty being performed in a
     manner that reflected credit alike upon himself and his constituents;
     and in the fall of 1894 he was nominated for the position of Register
     of Deeds by the same party, and this time was elected by a larger
     majority.  In addition to the duties of this office, he is now also
     serving as under Sheriff.
        Mr. Moore's marriage was consummated in Colborne, Ontario, July 9,
     1887, with Miss EMMA PROUT, daughter of WILLIAM PROUT, a Canadian
     farmer.  They have an interesting family of three little children,
     ranging in age from seven to three years, -- Georgia L., Charles
     Frederick, and Howard Murrel.

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