William Moore

Moore, William. He was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. December 25, 1810; eceived a common-school education; worked on a farm, and was clerk in a country store for some years; was subsequently devoted to mercantile pursuits in Atlantic County, New Jersey; spent nineteen years as agent of the Weymouth Iron Works; was for a time engaged in ship-building and the coasting trade; was twice elected a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Atlantic County, serving in all, ten years; and in 1866 he was elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serving on the Committees on Manufactures, and Public Buildings and Grounds, and as Chairman of the Post-Office Department Committee.

Lanman, Charles. Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States During Its First Century: From Original and Official Sources. Washington: James Anglim, Publisher, 1876, p. 299.

Submitted by Nancy.