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West Virginia State Site
Tyler County West Virginia
Lawyers of 1919
Boreman, K. S.-------------------Middlebourne
Carter, Olin C.------------------- Middlebourne
Conaway, O. B.------------------ Middlebourne
Hill, T. P.-------------------------- Middlebourne
Hill, O. J.-------------------------- Middlebourne
Kimball, Chas. N.---------------- Sistersville
Moore, K. C.---------------------- Middlebourne
McCoy, J. Hanford--------------- Sistersville
Underwood, I. M.----------------- Middlebourne
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Bar: Volume 34 Page 172,
By West Virginia Bar Association 1919, Submitted by Rodney Henthorn
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Biography of K. 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 III,
pg. 272
Tyler County
K. C. MOORE started the practice of law in Tyler County twenty years ago, and his sound abilities have brought him a large practice and growing influence in the affairs of his nativ.e county. He is a resident of Middlebourne, and is a member of a family that for four or five generations has been identified with West Virginia, chiefly as farmers, and always as good substantial citizens of their respective localities.
For several generations the Moores lived in Monongalia County, where the family was established by the pioneer, Alonzo Moore, who came from Maryland and was a farmer. lonzo was the great-great-grandfather of the Middle-
bourne attorney. His son, Phillip Moore, was also a native of Maryland, but spent his active life as a farmer in
Monongalia County. The grandfather was William Moore, who was born in Monongalia County in 1807, was reared
and married there, became a farmer, and in 1840 moved his family to Tyier County. He became the pioneer fruit
grower of this county, and his orchards of cherries, apples, peaches and plums were developed to commercial proportions and did much to stimulate fruit growing in the county. William Moore died at Joseph's Mills in Tyier County in1884. He was a whig and later a democrat in politics. His first wife, grandmother of the Middlebourne lawyer, was Rebecca Sine, a native of Monongalia County, who died at Joseph's Mills. By this marriage six sons and two daughters grew to mature years, all now deceased. By the second marriage of William Moore there were nine children. The third wife was Mrs. Ann (Johnson) Ellinger.
William Nelson Moore, a son of William and Rebecca (Sine) Moore, was born in Monongalia County August 1, 1829, and was between ten and eleven years of age when the family moved to Monongalia County and settled at
Joseph's Mills. In that community he lived out his life and was a highly successful farmer. In younger years he
filled the office of justice of the peace and was also a member of the County Court. In polities he was a stanch
republican. He died at Joseph's Mills December 6, 1919. William N. Moore married Lucinda Sweeney, who was born
in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in 1832 and died at Joseph's Mills in September, 1907. She was the mother
of six children: Virginia, who died at the age of fifty-nine at Shiloh in Tyier County, where her husband, Dr. David C. Smith, is a well known physician; Sarah, a resident of Pennsboro, West Virginia, widow of A. Nicholas Fordyce, who was a school teacher and later a farmer; Margaret A., living at the old homestead at Joseph's Mills; Mary E., who died aged fifty-six at Wilbur in Tyier County, wife of J. Wesley Stewart, now a retired farmer at Akron, Ohio; Charles, who owns and operates the old homestead farm; and K. C. Moore, who is the youngest.
Mr. Moore, who was born October 16, 1874, grew up on the old homestead, had the advantages of the rural schools, spent one year in the West Liberty Normal School, and graduated Bachelor of Pedagogy in 1896 from West
Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon. He spent two years in West Virginia University Law School and in 1900
was admitted to the bar and began practice at Sistersville. A year later he moved to Middlebourne, where for twenty years he has been busily engaged in handling a civil and criminal practice, and since 1912 has been a member
of the firm, Underwood & Moore, one of the best known law firms of Tyler County. Mr. Moore was prosecuting attorney of Tyler County from 1908 to 1912. He has been active in the republican party, has been a delegate to state, congressional and judicial conventions, and in recent years has seldom missed attending conventions for the nomination of judicial and congressional candidates. He is a member of the State Bar Association.
During the war Mr. Moore gave precedence to ench work as he could perform for the Government, including the
filling out of questionnaires for recruited men in the county and as a Four Minute Speaker in behalf of the Liberty Loan, Bed Cross and other drives.
At Alma, West Virginia, in 1906, he married Miss Edna E. Conaway, daughter of Dr. Eli B. and Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Conaway. Her mother still lives at Alma, where her father was a greatly loved country physician, practicing medicine forty-seven years. Mrs. Moore finished her education in West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon. She has two children, Richard Conaway born September 9, 1907, and Mary Virginia, born August 13, 1909.
- he married Miss Edna E. Conaway, daughter of Dr. Eli B. and Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Conaway. Her mother still lives at Alma, where her father was a greatly loved country physician, practicing medicine forty-seven years.
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