Samuel McClelland Moore

Birth Date

1821-08-23

Death Date

1885-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, circuit judge. Bourbon County, Kentucky native. Married to Martha Wilson Moore in Butler, Ohio, on March 15, 1842. Father of Margaret E. Moore, Robert W. Moore, Samuella Moore, James C. Moore, French Moore, Rosena B. Moore, and Nora Moore, Attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Attorney in Covington, Kentucky in 1850. Ruling elder in Second Presbyterian Church of Covington, Kentucky, in 1854. Judge for Kenton County Circuit Court in 1856. Attorney in Covington in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton, Covington Ward 3, p.256B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton, Covington Ward 3, p.367. Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Butler County, film #000355779 (accessed via ancestry.com). Leroy Jones Halsey, A history of the McCormick theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church (Chicago: McCormick Theological Seminary, 1893), 395-6. Find A Grave, "Judge Samuel McClelland Moore (1821-1885)," Memorial #112794880, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112794880 (accessed November 16, 2019).

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