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The Biography of Jesse Hale Moore

Jesse Hale Moore, educator, clergyman, soldier and representative, was born in St. Clair county, Ill., April 22, 1817. He was graduated from McKendree college, Lebanon, Ill., A.B., 1842, A.M., 1845; was a teacher at Nashville, Ill., 1844-46. He was licensed to preach in 1846 and was pastor of the Shelbyville M.E. church. He subsequently became principal of the seminary at Paris, Ky., and was president of Quincy college, Ill., 1854-56, and pastor at Decatur, Ill., 1856-62. In 1862 he resigned and raised the 115th Illinois regiment, which he commanded at Chickamauga and in the pursuit of Hood, and for a time he commanded the 2nd brigade, 1st division, 4th army corps, Thomas's Army of the Cumberland, in the Tennessee campaign, 1864-65. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865 for gallant and meritorious conduct during the war. He returned to Illinois, was elected presiding elder of the Decatur district in 1868, and was a Republican representative in the 41st and 42nd congresses, 1869-73, being chairman of the committee on invalid pensions during the 42nd congress. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by McKendree college in 1871. In 1881 he was appointed U.S. consul at Callao, Peru, where he died, July 11, 1883.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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