ORREN CHENEY MOORE. Mentioned in the Records of the Coninlittee of Safety of the Date of Aug

ORREN CHENEY MOORE. mentioned in the records of the coninlittee of safety of the date of Aug. 3, 1778, that leave was given to Doctor Gove Hon. Orren Cheney Moore was horn at New Hatnpton, of New Boston (probably an army snrgeon) to visit as a N. H., Aug. ro, 1839. He was one of eleven children of physician (201. Robert Moore of Lonclonder~y, whose Jonathan Holmes Moore and his wife, HannahVan Sleep- death occurred in the Octoher following. His home- er, a native of Bristol. His mother was of English and stead, deeded to him by his father, lately called the Jen- Knickerbocker descent and his father was a lineal de- ness place, now owfled by Cun~mingsW. Price, is on the scendant of John and Janet Moor, Scotch-Irish etnigrants, road fro111 Derry Lower Village to Chester in the Fnglisl~ who settled in Londonderry, about 1721. It isinteresting Range in I,ontlonderry, and ahout half a tnile northwest to trace the ancestry of so well-known a public man. of Beaver pond. The emigrant John Moor died Jan. 24, The emigrant ancestor was undoubtedly the John Muar who 1774, and Colonel Rohert and his sister Elizabeth (Moor) was one of the Holmes were co- signers of the ad- I - administrators of dress to Governor his estate. Two Shute, in 1718, ex- of Mrs. Holmes' pressing a desire sons, John and to remove from Jonathan, married the north of Ire- daughters of Col. land to New Eng- Robert. His land if sufficient mother, Janet, encouragement be died March 8, given, and he was 1776, and Colonel also the John Robert, who died Moor whose name in October, 1778, stands first ot~the lies buried by the schedule of the side of his father proprietors of and mother in Londonderry, an- Lonclonderry. nexed to the char- His youngest son, ter granted hy Robert, born - in Governor Shute in Londonderry, June, 1722. They Sept. 20,1769, died came from the Aug. 16,1803, aged county of Xntrirn. &. He married At least two of Jenny Rolfe, who t,heir children was born in New- were born in Ire- huryport, Mass., land, Deacon Wil- Sept. 22, 1771, and liam Moor, born died Feb. 6, 1852, in 1718, who with aged 81. She was his brother, Col. a descendant of Daniel Moor, born Rev. Benjamin in 1730, afterwards Kolfe, who was settled in:Bedford, killed hy the In- and Elizabeth dians at Haver- who married Na- hill, Aug. 29, 1708. thaniel Holxnes. Their son, the She was the great- father of the sub- grandn~other o f ject of this sketch, Francis P. Whit- was born at the temore, the late ~I~I~HNCIIJCI VI~Y NOORE. a family homestead Bernard B. Whit- on Shirley Hill in tenlore and of Judge Nathaniel Holnles of Cambridge, Goffstown in June, 1802, and was named Jonathan Holnles from whose correspondence many facts concerning his Moore after his uncle. Both parents of Orren died in ancestry were obtained. Manchester, the mother, Aug. 3, 1858, and the father, The emigrant's wife, Janet Moor, was called "Jenny Nov. 12, 1869. In 1846, when he was only seven years Flavel " because, as it was said, she was a great reader of old, his father and mother removed to Manchester from the works of Flavel, a learned Pnritan divine ; it is quite Hebron. The father having met with financial reverses, possible, however, that her maiden name was Flavel. the son entered the Manchester mills as a mule boy Their son, Rohert Moore, born in 1726, was one of Capt. when only eleven years old. Later he became a student John Mitchell's scouts or 'I 1,ondouderry troopers " at the in the North Grarnn~arschool on Spring street. Here he age of eighteen, in 1744, and on Sept. I, 1775, was ap- spent four years, three of which he was under the guid- pointed lieutenant-colonel of Col. Samuel Hobart's regi- ance of Prof. Moses T. Brown, later of Tufts college. ment of the New Hampshire continental line. It is Leaving Manchester the lad went to Holderness to work HISTOt Y" OF N./ISHLrA, .iV. H. 485 in a paper mill owned by George Mitchell, who married For nearly a quarter of a century Vr. Voore spoke his oldest sister, Lucia Van Moore, working half the every day to the people of this city through the editorial night and half the day and devoting his afternoons to columns of his paper. A iournalist writing for the daily study in the High school under Rev. D. C. Frost. press must form and express his views and opinions on Among his schoolmates here he met Nancy Webster current events without any extended deliberation. If he Thompson, who six years later, Nov. 29, 186o, became is active and aggressive under such circumstances he his wife. would be more than human not to make mistakes. No She was the daughter of John Hayes Thompson and his doubt Mr. Moore sometimes made such mistakes. His wife, Charlotte Baker, and sister of the late Mai. Ai Baker first impressions might not always be identical with his Thompson, for many years secretary of state of New ripe conclusions. But in the discussion of many matters Hampshire. The father and four of his sons were in the he made no mistakes. His advocacy of the ten hour law, war for the suppression of the Rebellion. He was of the for example, was convincing and effectual. He thought family of Ebenezer Thompson, New Hampshire's first sec- ten hours a day was long enough for women and little retary of state. Mrs. Moore's father died at Hilton Head children to be yoked up to a machine and compelled to of malarial fever in 1862, while acting as commissary of keep time with it in our great manufactories. He knew the Third New Hampshire regiment. Mrs. Thompson's from experience the iniquity of longer hours; his synl- grandfather, Samuel Baker, and his father, Joseph Baker, pathies were with the honest toilers and to his quick per- both served in the French and Indian Wars. ception fat dividends to mill owners could never offset the Mr. Moore's brother, Frederick A. Moore, was publish- dwarfed minds and enfeebled bodies that might be occa- ing the La Crosse Democrat, so Often, leaving Holder- sioned by too long hours of continuous hard labor. His hess when he was sixteen, went to Wisconsin to learn the editorials on the subiect were clear, pointed and courage- printer's trade with his brother. He remained with him ous. If he lost the support of wealthy corporations by about three years and subsequently was employed at his course, he retained his own self-respect and secured Madison and in Jefferson City, Vo. The path of a iour- the gratitude of the people whom he faithfully served. neyman printer is not always strewn with roses and the His support of temperance and his opposition to lotter- writer well recollects the amusing account which Mr. ies were alike fearless and convincing. He would rather Moore once gave him of his experience about this time remain a poor man than grow rich from the proceeds of when out of work. Finding nothing to do at the case, advertising liquors or lotteries. In a great measure without a particle of false pride, he bought an ax and through his efforts Nashua voted for constitutional pro- went to chopping. But his early training had not fitted hibition. If a wealthy corporation sought by the issue of him for that exercise and he soon relinquished it for watered stock to put a new and perpetual blanket mort- something better. gage upon the homes and industries of a community and Returning to his native state, on account of the illness thus reduce the members of that community to a condi- of his mother, he was employed as foreman on the Daily tion of servitude his facile pen was quick to unmask the American in Manchester until that paper was united with fraud. All the people may not have been able to rec- the Mirror. While residing there he was chosen clerk of ognize or appreciate his efforts on their behalf, but the the common council and represented \Vard Four in the wrong-doers had no difficulty in seeing the error of their legislature in 1863 and 1864. He assisted in raising a ways when illumined by his pen, whether they mended company for the Union army in which he would have them or not. been comniissioned but for unfortunate nearsighted- He championed the cause of the people to a successful ness. In April, 1864, he was employed as editor of the issue against the arbitrary course of the foreign insurance New Hampshire Telegraph, then a weekly paper pub- companies upon the valued policy question, and argued lished by the heirs of Albin Beard and he conducted that that if those companies chose to withdraw from the state, newspaper until it was sold by the proprietors. as they threatened to do, New Hampshire could provide For a short period thereafter he served as register of her own insurance. This prediction was abundantly veri- probate for Hillsborough county taking up his residence fied by the event. in Amherst for that purpose, and when the records were Vr. Moore's opposition to the consolidation of all the removed to Nashua he again resumed his residence in this great railroads of the state under one management was city. persistent and for a while at least effectual.

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