This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/1392.1.1 Message Board Post: Source: Goodspeed’s History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford & Gasconade Counties Missouri Originally Published 1888 My reprint is from 1970 You asked for any info on a James Moore. This is what I found in the Missouri History portion of the above mentioned book: Quote page 288 “Justices---The first term of the court held in the courthouse at Union, commenced June 16, 1828, only Jesse McDonald and Ephraim B. Strickland being present. Since that time the justices of the county court have been: …………..1864, John T. Vitt, James Moore and John Wall……………” James Moore was a justice at the time the “St. Louis Road” was being built. This road Quote page 299 “…extending from Union by way of Gray’s Summit to the St. Louis County line, to connect with the Manchester road running into St. Louis.”…. “The St. Louis road is twenty-two miles long in Franklin County, and its original cost was about $252,000. The work upon it was done in a very unworkmanlike manner; huge stones being piled up in the middle of the road, and broken stones being placed upon them, which soon wore away, rendering the road almost impassable. It was the original design of the county court to build a double track road from Union to the county line, but the plan was afterward changed to a single track. When the double track road was decided upon, the county court consisted of Judges J.T. Vitt, John Wall and James Moore, but almost immediately after the court was changed, Francis Becker taking John T. Vitt’s place.” …………… In the Crawford county section: Quote page 598 “Leasburg is situated on the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad eighty miles from St. Louis. It was originally named Harrison Station for William Harrison, but the name was changed in 1859, in honor of Samuel Lea, who that year built the first residence in the place, a log structure, 24x26 feet in size. Mr. Lea also built the first frame house in Leasburg, in 1860, and was also the first merchant opening a general store. The first blacksmith was a Mr. Whitehead, in 1861 or 1862. The first shoemaker was James Moore, and the first druggist Marshall Land, the latter in 1879. The first postmaster was Samuel Lea, and the present one is John West. The school teacher was Moses Harmond, in 1863, who taught a school of from twenty to twenty-five scholars. There are two churches in this town, a Methodist Episcopal and a Roman Catholic. The present business men in Leasburg are John West and William Trimble, each of whom keeps a general store, and John Haley, blacksmith.! The population of the town is now seventy-nine.” NOTE: keep in mind this was written in 1888. See next post……..(cont)