My Genealogy Hound

Eugene P. Moore, editor and proprietor of The Memphis Democrat, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, October 6, 1844, the son of Gen. David Moore, of Canton, whose sketch appears elsewhere. Our subject came to Missouri in 1850, and was reared in Clark County. He was educated at a college in Warsaw, Ind. During the early part of the war he served under Gen. M. E. Green, in Missouri, for a time in the Sixteenth Mississippi. After the war he taught school some, and began the study of medicine, but dropped the latter in 1870. The following year he was associated with Maj. Leflet in the publication of The New Era, at Palmyra. Soon after he was made enrolling clerk of the Senate, and after serving in the Twenty-seventh General Assembly he served two years in the land register’s office. In March, 1873, he married Sophie Johnson. Two years later he bought out his former partner, and converted his paper into The Marion County Democrat, which he continued at Palmyra for seven years. In 1881 he became city editor of The Morning Commercial Telegram, of Toledo, Ohio, and was afterward in the same capacity on The Evening Post, of that city. Later on he became manager of the Railroader Job Printing Company for one year. His next occupation was managing editor of the Fort Worth (Tex.) Democrat, and soon after had a similar position on The Sandusky (Ohio) Daily Journal, with which he was connected during the noted Frank Hurd campaign. He bought his present paper in March, 1887, which he has ably conducted. His first wife died in 1877, and in March, 1883, he married Maggie L. Rush, of Palmyra. Annie K. is the only daughter living by his first marriage, and by his second are the following children: Sinona, Eugenie and Frances. Our subject is a Democrat. He is a member of the K. of P., end he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.