Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of James C. MOORE 

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pgs. 255-256

JAMES C. MOORE is one of the leading merchants at Warwood, a thriving
industrial place that is now a part of the City of Wheeling, he having been
four years of age when the family home was established in the present
Warwood District of Ohio County and having been here reared and educated.
He was born in the City of Wheeling, October 31. 1874, a son of John Z. and
Mary (Cashman) Moore, the former of whom was born at Akron, Ohio, and the
latter at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Moore was a child when the family
removed to Wheeling, where her father, John Cashman, was in the service of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company until his death, and she was reared
and educates at Wheeling, where her marriage was solemnized.  She survived
her husband four years and died at the age of fifty-three years.

John Z. Moore was left an orphan in childhood and was reared in the home of
an uncle.  At the age of eighteen year he found employment in a nail mill in
the City of Pittsburgh, and he became a skilled nailmaker.  Later he was
employed in a nail mill in New Jersey, and there he enlisted in a New Jersey
regiment, with which he served as a loyal soldier of the Union during the
Civil war, he having been in the army commanded by General Sheridan and
having participated in many engagements, including those of the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia and the battle of Appomattox.  After the war he remained
for a time at Pittsburgh, and about 1866 came to Wheeling.  For years he was
a skilled artisan at the Top Nail Mill, and in 1878 he purchased a farm of
twenty-six acres in the present Warwood locality, he having continued in the
management of this excellent little farm until his death in 1900, at that
age of sixty-three years, and having in the meanwhile continued to work at
his trade.  He served as a member of the school board of his district and
was other wise prominent in community affairs. Of the seven children all but
one attained to maturity and five are now living.  The son Sheridan is
engaged in the practice of law at Huntington; Misses Estella and Nellie
reside with their brother James C., of this review, who is a bachelor; and
the other sister, Laura, is the wife of Charles Meyer.  In earlier years
Miss Nellie Moore was a popular teacher in the public schools, besides which
she served as postmistress at Glenova, the title of the office having been
changed to Warwood, and the village having finally become a part of the City
of Wheeling.

James C. Moore gained his early education in the public schools, and as a
young man he worked in the nail mills.  Thereafter he was actively
identified with the operation of a large farm in this locality, and about
1905 he engaged in general road contracting. In 1907 he opened a feed and
livery establishment at Wheeling, and this he conducted four years, during
which he still resided at Warwood.  His elder brother, Robert M., engaged in
the grocery business at Warwood in 1903, and upon the death of this brother
in 1911 James C. assumed charge of the business, which he conducted nine
years, in the meanwhile having developed it into a general merchandise
enterprise, the first of the kind at Warwood.  His sister Nellie became
postmistress, the postoffice having been in the store, and in this position
she succeeded her deceased brother.  It is interesting to note that the
original title of this local postoffice, Glenova, represents a combination
of the name of Glen Run (by which this part of Ohio County has long been
known), the "o" from the initial of the county, and the final syllable "va"
representing the current abbreviation for Virginia.

In 1920 Mr. Moore sold his store, and thereafter he erected a two-story
double-store building, 56 by 56 feet in dimensions, in which he is now
conducting two well appointed mercantile places, one being devoted to
groceries and the other to hardware.  He is the owner also of the residence
property which represents the home of himself and his sisters, and all of
them are members of the Presbyterian Church.