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Charles E. was born in Lee county, Illinois, on September 24, 1869, being the son of William H. and Emma (Stubbs) Moore, mention of whom is made in another portion of this work. Our subject accompanied his parents to Iowa and thence to Boulder county, Colorado, whence, in 1878, he came with them to Union county, where he has since lived. He acquired a good education in the common schools of this county and in the places where he has resided previously, and then at the age of twenty he stepped forth from the portals of the parental home and encountered the activities of life on his own responsibility. He at once engaged in the saw-milling business, operating in Elgin for one year, when he removed with his mill to a place four miles northwest from that city, where he continued in the manufacture of lumber and its products for a time and then again removed his plant to its present location, four miles north from Elgin. He owns a good farm of one hundred and twenty acres here, and also a quarter-section of good timber land, and he has a fine plant for making timber. He is doing a good business and has a lucrative patronage, which is constantly increasing both because of the excellent work that he does and because of his kind and considerate treatment of patrons, while uprightness and integrity characterize him constantly.

On September 24, 1891, in Union county, Mr. Moore married Miss Dora, daughter of Raymond and Mary A. (Cole) Elmer, and they have become the parents of one child, Alva, born August 14, 1892, in Union county. Mrs. Moore's parents were numbered among the agricultural population of McPherson county, Kansas, where she was born on July 11, 1875. In 1889 they came to this county, settling near Elgin, and taking up farming. In 1895 the father was taken hence by death being buried in the Summerville cemetery and the mother is still living on the old place.

William A. is the son of William H. and Emma Stubbs, being born in Boulder, Colorado, on March 6, 1875. His parents are natives of Maine, the father being born January 18, 1828, and the mother May 24, 1846, their marriage occurring in Lee county, Illinois, in 1866. Previous to this marriage the father had taken a wife in Ohio. Mrs. Parker of this section being a daughter by that marriage. After the death of his first wife Mr. Moore came to Lee county, Illinois, and devoted his attention to farming, and in 1870 he migrated to Iowa and there took up the same occupation in connection with raising stock. Five years were spent there and then he sold out and migrated to Boulder, Colorado, where he engaged in the sawmill business and there our subject was born. In 1878 the father came to Union county, bringing his family with him, his advent here occurring right in the midst of the stirring activities of the Bannock Indian war. He soon selected a homestead north from Elgin and there bestowed his efforts in the art of agriculture until 1897, when he repaired to Pine Valley, where he lives at the present time. Our subject has always lived with his parents, working in partnership with his father until 1900, when he associated himself with his brother, mention of whom is made in another portion of this work, in the saw-milling business. Our subject is a man of stanch moral worth, and has the confidence and esteem of all who may have the pleasure of his acquaintance.