- AMBROSE MOORE, the fourth child of Phila (WRIGHT) MOORE and
her husband William
- Moore, was born in the town of Durham, Greene County, New
York on March 1, 1815. He was a boy who always made the best
of his opportunities. He was a boy who devoted his leisure moments
in thoroughly learning the various sciences, with the result
that in many instances would today make ashamed many college
bred young men and women who had far greater learning opportunities.
Ambrose MOORE was a man that needed only the knowledge that an
advanced education gives to have placed him among the leaders
of the great movements that engross the minds of our statesmen
and philanthropists. As it was, the man stood foremost among
his associates and commanded the respect and admiration of all
his acquaintances.
- When he was twenty-one years old in 1836, Ambrose moved with
his uncle Ezra WRIGHT to
- Wisconsin, traveling all the way from Greene County, New
York to Rock County, Wisconsin with an ox team. Mr. MOORE selected
a farm in Magnolia Township near Evansville, Wisconsin (at that
time called "The Grove") and his uncle selected one
at Beaver Dam, in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
- Mr. MOORE served twice in the war for the Union. At its beginning,
he enlisted in the 3rd
- Minnesota Volunteers, in which he served for about one year,
when his company was taken prisoner at Hurfreesboro, Tennessee.
Being paroled, Ambrose was sent back to Minnesota to fight the
Indians. There he was discharged for physical disability, caused
by incipient cataract.
- Before the war, Mr. MOORE had rented his farm in Wisconsin
and moved with his family to
- Winnebago, Minnesota, near which place he preempted another
far. On that farm there stood a church known as "The Busy
Church." Selling this farm, he returned to his farm in Wisconsin,
when he again enlisted (with his eldest son) in the 42nd Wisconsin
Volunteers, serving as Corporal until the close of the war.
- Mr. MOORE made another pioneering venture. This time he took
his son Milton MOORE and
- went to Kansas, where he located his son upon a farm and
returned to his home in Wisconsin where he lived until his death,
which occurred March 21, 1877. His loss was keenly felt by all
who knew him, being regarded in all the enterprises of the town
where he so long had made his home, as their leader, and as one
whose integrity was without blemish, whose unselfishness as a
neighbor and friend was almost without parallel. His patriotism
could not be questioned, as he and his son, whom he took with
him in the army, were not included within the limits of age,
and although his permanent physical disability was contracted
during his service, and the fine residence he had built for the
home of his family was destroyed by fire while he was away at
the front, he never applied for a pension. At the time of his
death, he was engaged in making extensive preparations for the
breeding of fine stock. Ambrose Moore is buried at Maple Grove
Cemetery, West Magnolia, Wisconsin.
- His actions in life were guided by Christian convictions,
but he never was connected with any
- church organizations. His restless, intrepid nature made
him a good instance of that class of heroic men who pioneered
the great West and paved the way for the millions who now make
it their home.
- Ambrose MOORE was married twice. In 1840 he married Lucy
Ann PUTNAM, by whom he
- had four children, namely:
- Milton MOORE, who married Elizabeth NORMAN
- John MOORE
- Phila MOORE
- Marie MOORE who married Albert DILLREE
-
- In 1857 Mrs. Moore died, and about one year later, Ambrose
married Sarah C. Cole, by whom he had nine children:
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- Belle MOORE, who first married Henry CASFORD, and who second
married C. W. BROOKS
- Amelia MOORE, who married James D. HARVEY
- Adelaide MOORE
- Elizabeth MOORE, who married F. S. WOOD
- William MOORE, who married Alice FOX
- Effie MOORE, who married William CARLSON
- Charles E. MOORE, who married Emma CAMPBELL
- Maude MOORE, who married Harvey WOOD
- Clara L. MOORE
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- A photograph of Ambrose MOORE can be found in the book "There
Stands Old Rock" by Thomas Walterman (on the back cover
and on p. 296).
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- Courtesy of Donald
Moore
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