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CAPT. DAVID MOORE11 he('apt. David Moore, who has served Ins county and city in various official capacities during the many \ ears of his re sidence among our people, and who is now a candidate for re-election to the ofllee of county [judge, which he has held four terms in past years with great credit to himself and the beat of results to the county, needs no introduction to the Llder settlors ci Stanley countv.He has lived at Fcrt Pierre since rcrervaticn was opened and the county was lt;rgauized in 1883. lie has eared a family of whom any father might well feel proud, and his public and private life here and in communities further cast where lie took an equally active part in affairs when lie lived there, has always been an open hook and withi ut a political or personal blemish.The following biographical sketch is taken from Doane Robinson’s History of South Dakota, and will serve to make the nosv settlers bettor acquainted with one of our best citizens, who is asking for their votes on the 8 ti of November.“David Moore, one of the sterling citizens of Stanley county, and who was prominently concerned in the organization of the county and also of the county seat, the city ol Fort Pierre, was horn on a farm in Washington township, Clay county, Indiana. He was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm, and received his early educational training in the common schools of Indiana and Illinois, being seventeen years of age at the time of his parents removal to the latter state.“After his school days he contiuued to be identified with farming until there came the call to higher duties, as I he integrity of the nation wras menanced by armed rebellion. On the 1st, of August, 1862, at Bloomington, Illinois, he enlisted as a private in Company II, Ninety-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, being appointed fourth sergeant of his company at the time of its organization, while on the first of January, 1863, he was promoted to second lieutenant, w hich office ho held until January 5, 1861, when he w as made captain of his own company, serving as such until his regiment was mustered out at Galveston, Texas, in July, 1865, where he received his honorable discharge. IIiscompany was assigned to the Army of the Frontier and to the Departmentof the Guif in 1868, and was in that de| artment until the end of tho war,} artic ipating in many important engagements, among the more notable of which may bo mentioned the following: Siege of Vicksburg, YazooCity, siege and capture ol Fort Morgan, Spanish Fort, Alabama, and other revere battles.“After the dose of his ai.dfaithful military service Judge Moore returned to McLain county, Illinois, where he resumed his active identift-ca »on with agriculture.4 He located in H ind count} , South l)ako a, in 1883 and in 1884 moved 10 Hyde county, where he took up 160 acres of Government land and continued farming. He resigned tho liigh-m re pestcffice in 18S9, and removed to Fort l'ierre, where lie aided in organizing Stanley county and was elected the first police justice in Fort Pierre in 1890.“In tho general election of November, 1892, he was elected county judge and in 1892 he served as states attorney of the county, making an excellent record as public prosecutor. In November, 1902, he w as again elected to the county bench, serving four years.”Thus it will he seen that the Democratic candidate for this responsible office is well qualified by training and experience to perform tho duties devolving upon him.During his former terms in,offlce he has always kept expenses down to the minimum, furnishing his ow n office, rent free to the county, presenting no bills for stationery, postage or sundries, and conducting the county business in the same careful conservative manner which has made himself and sons successful and popular business men. He is now mayor of Fort Pierre and looking after municipal affairs every day.Judge Moore and his host of friends in all political parties and factions will appreciate your support and you will be beat serving the interests of your neighbor and yourself by placing a cross in front ot his name on the ballot on November 8.For County Judge, Captain David Moore, in the Democratic Column, a man of high principles, who has served his country with honor in time of w ar, and his county and city repeatedly in time of peace in such an acceptable manner that r.aught has ever been said against his actions or motives.
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The Kadoka Press
Kadoka, South Dakota, US
Fri, Nov 04, 1910
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