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CLINTON MOORE
Vol. 3, p. 1234-1235
Book has photo

Coming to Indian Territory in 1904, it has been given to Mr. Moore
to achieve large success and much influence in connection with the
development of the oil industry in what is now the State of Oklahoma,
and he is known and honored as a loyal and public-spirited citizen.
He has extensive interests in the production of oil and gas, and it
is pleasing to note that he has been a prominent figure in this line
of enterprise for many years, his association with the oil industry
having been initiated, in Pennsylvania, within about a year after the
termination of his valiant service as a soldier of the Union in the
Civil war. It will thus be readily understood that, within a period
of virtually half a century, he has gained authoritative knowledge of
all details of the business and that Oklahoma has been favored in
gaining his person and capitalistic interposition in the developing
and exploiting of its fine natural resources.

On a farm near the City of Rochester, Monroe County, New York,
Clinton Moore was born on the 28th of February, 1848, and he is a son
of Thomas and Jane (DOREMUS) Moore, the former a native of Yates
County and the latter of Seneca County, that state. In his early life
the father was a successful and popular teacher in the schools of the
old Empire State, but the major part of his active career was one of
close and successful identification with the fundamental industries
of agriculture and stock-growing, of which he was long a
representative in Monroe County, New York. He was born in the year
1800 and was about eighty-three years of age at the time of his
death, which occurred in the City of Rochester, his wife having died
in Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1868, when sixty years of age.
Linus Moore was a citizen of prominence and influence in his
community and served many years a justice of the peace in Monroe
County. His father Roger Moore, was a valiant soldier in the war of
the Revolution, in which he served as captain of a company in the
command of Gen. Ethan Allen. He was taken prisoner at the battle of
Fort Ticonderoga. He to whom this sketch is dedicated was the ninth
in order to birth in a family of five sons and five daughters, and he
has three brothers and two sisters still living.

Clinton Moore was reared to the age of twelve years on the homestead
farm and the following three years were passed in the City of
Rochester, his education is the meanwhile having been that acquired
in the common schools of the locality and period. On August 1, 1863,
about six months prior to his sixteenth birthday anniversary, Mr.
Moore gave distinctive assurance of his youthful patriotism by
tendering his services in defense of the Union. He enlisted in the
Twenty-second New York Volunteer Cavalry, and was with General
Grant's command in the Wilderness campaign, taking part in the battle
of Cold Harbor and in Wilson's raid from City Point to Washington.
Thereafter his gallant regiment served under Sheridan in the
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and took part in the battle of
Winchester, Virginia, on the 19th of September, 1864. On the 23rd of
the same month he was shot from his horse in an attack on the part of
Moseby's guerrillas, near Frost Royal, and after being sent to the
hospital at Winchester he was transferred to a hospital at Frederick
City, Maryland. He recuperated and rejoined his regiment, with which
he was assigned to provost duty in the Valley of Virginia until the
close of the war. He was mustered out August 1, 1865, and duly
received his honorable discharge, after having made a record that
shall ever reflect honor upon his name and memory-a faithful and
valiant soldier who aided in the preservation of national integrity.

After the close of the war Mr. Moore took a course of study in the
Bryant & Stratton Business College at Rochester, new York, and in the
winter of 1865 he went to the oil fields of Pennsylvania,
establishing his headquarters at Titusville in the spring of 1866 and
being thereafter closely concerned with oil production in that state
for many years. Thereafter he followed the developments along the
same important line of industry in Ohio and West Virginia, and
finally he came to Indian Territory in 1904, after which year he
maintained his residence at Bartlesville until March 1, 1916, when he
came to Tulsa. He has built a beautiful home in Tulsa, at 1701 south
Denver Street. He now has extensive oil interests in Oklahoma and has
been an influential figure in the development of the great oil and
gas interests of this vigorous young commonwealth. Mr. Moore is a man
of large capitalistic investments in the state of his adoption and is
a director of the Union National Bank of Bartlesville, in the
organization of which he was concerned. His interest in public
affairs has been of loyal and vital order during the period of his
residence in Oklahoma, and he has served as representative of
Washington County in the lower house of the State Legislature. During
his entire mature life he has not wavered in his allegiance to the
republican party, and he is prominently affiliated with the time
honored Masonic fraternity, in which he has received the thirty-
second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides being
affiliated also with the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine. He was identified with the laying and dedication of
the cornerstone of the Masonic Building in the City of Guthrie, and
his name appears with others on this stone. He is a member of the
vestry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Bartlesville, though not
a communicant of the church, his wife, however, having held the
latter relationship. He has never abated his deep interest in his old
comrades of the Civil war and manifests this through an active
affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic.

At Oil City, Pennsylvania, on the 1st of May, 1875, was solemnized
the marriage of Mr. Moore to Miss Sarah KEENAN, of Meadville, that
state, and she died at Coleville, McKean County, Pennsylvania, in
1889. Of this union were born six children: Mrs. Pearl GORHAM, who
now makes her home with her father; Mabel, who died at the age of
eighteen years; Frank L., who resides at Tulsa, this state; Harrold
C., who is cashier of the Union National Bank of Bartlesville; Edith,
who is the wife of Clyde FOWLER, of Bartlesville; and Hazel, who
remains at the paternal home.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, October 18, 1998.