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ULYSSES C. MOORE
Vol. 3, p. 1274
Book has photo

Several weeks before the formal opening of the Kiowa and Comanche
Reservation Ulysses C. Moore took up his residence at Lawton and
began the practice of law, on July 29, 1901. From that time to the
present he has continued to maintain a foremost place among the
lawyers of Comanche County and has found and utilized many
opportunities for real public service.

The interest attaching to his career is greater because recently his
candidacy was announced for the office of county attorney of Comanche
County. That he is capable and qualified needs no proof to those that
have closely followed his career, but whether in office or as a
private citizen he has been an Oklahoman whose record should be
contained in the history of the state.

He was born on an old Virginia plantation in Patrick County,
Virginia, July 16, 1866. His Virginia ancestors originated in England
and probably settled in Virginia in colonial times. His grandfather
was one of the large planters in Patrick County, where he owned more
than 1,000 acres of land, and it was there that William T. Moore,
father of the Oklahoma lawyer, was born in 1829. He was also a
farmer, though he devoted some time to merchandising, and he retired
several years before his death, which occurred in August 1892. He was
a democrat, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
William T. Moore married Miss Paulina A. CLEMENT, who was born in
1839 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. She survived her husband only
a short time, dying in Patrick County November 8, 1892. They were the
parents of nine children, as follows: Robert E. Lee, D. D. S., who
died in Patrick County, Virginia, at the age of twenty-four; Willie,
who is the wife of R. R, SCALES, a farmer of Patrick County; Ulysses
C.; Minnie, who died at the age of twelve years; John Edgar, a
traveling salesman for a shoe firm and a resident of Patrick County;
Monnie, who married Charles TURNER, a farmer of Carroll County,
Virginia; Georgia, who died in Carroll County, Virginia, at the age
of twenty-four; Nannie V., who married Mr. HEDGECOCK, a farmer of
High Point, North Carolina; and Nattie, wife of Dr. J. W. BOLEN, a
physician and druggist of Galax, Carroll County, Virginia.

Ulysses C. Moore attended the public schools of Patrick County, and
remained on his father's farm until the age of seventeen. After
completing his public school course he began teaching, pursuing that
work during the winter and working on the farm and as a carpenter in
the summer until he had saved money enough to enter college. For
three years he was a student in Trinity College at Durham, North
Carolina, and then for a year and a half resumed teaching at
Jonesville, North Carolina. He resigned his place in the school to
take a normal course in William and Mary College in Williamsburg,
Virginia. He then continued teaching at Peter's Crook in Patrick
County, his native county, and a year later became a member of the
faculty of Stuart Normal College at Stuart, Virginia. In the second
year there he was elected president of the college, and remained its
head until he resigned to take up the study of law. In the University
of Tennessee, where he completed a two year course in one year, and
was graduated LL, B, in June, 1898. He at once began the practice of
law at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and his ability soon attracted
favorable attention of a growing list of clients. While he was in
Chattanooga Grant University, now the University of Chattanooga,
established a law school, and Mr. Moore was chosen its first
professor of real property, but after a year he resigned, since he
was unable to attend the night classes.

While at Chattanooga Mr. Moore met Mr. Sam STRASS, who at that time
was conducting the Red Store near Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory. It
was the influence of Mr. Strass which determined the Chattanooga
lawyer to participate in the opening of the southwestern district of
Oklahoma to settlement, and in February, 1901, he arrived in Oklahoma
City and them on the date already mentioned reached Lawton, and from
that time to the present, a period of fifteen years, has been closely
and influentially identified with the bar and with the good
citizenship of Lawton and Comanche County. He has had an important
civil and criminal practice, and his offices are at 425 D. Avenue.

By learning, industry, ability and character Mr. Moore holds a high
rank among Oklahoma's lawyers and is no less valued in the community
as a liberal minded and public spirited citizen. A democrat in
politics, he served as secretary of the county election board during
Governor Haskell's administration. That was an important office
immediately after statehood, and though there was very little pay
connected with it, Mr. Moore gave it the best of his ability for four
years. While secretary of the board there occurred several county
division fights, and he vigorously safe-guarded the interest of the
parent county, and he deserves much credit for keeping Comanche
County intact as to boundary, and when he left office it was one of
the largest and most influential counties of the state. For two years
Mr. Moore served as a member of the Lawton Board of Education, and in
that capacity he sought in every possible way to raise the standards
of the local schools, and, consistent with public economy, to make
the equipment of the very best.

His public service has been characterized by two important qualities
- progressiveness and economy. He does not believe in the sacrifice
of efficiency merely to save a few dollars, and at the same time
within reasonable bounds the interests of the taxpayers are always
paramount in the consideration of any public questions. He has shown
himself to be an honest, competent and fearless citizen, and as such
he enjoys high esteem throughout Comanche County, regardless of his
political partisanship.

Mr. Moore is a member of the Lawton Chamber of Commerce, is a
trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, belongs to the
various bar associations and is affiliated with the Knights of
Pythias and the Woodmen of the World. Among other business interests
he is a director of the Epstein Oil Company.

At Willis, Virginia, Mr. Moore married Miss Rosie BURNETT. Her
father, the late Abe Burnett, was a Virginia stock raiser. They have
one child, Virginia.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, January 23, 1999.