Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the New Hampshire Press Association (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... MEMORIAL SKETCHES. ORREN C. MOORE. Shortly after noon on Friday, May 12, 1893, the life went out in a man whose career has left a singularly deep impress upon his native state. The strong individuality, unconquerable energy, and incorruptible integrity of Orren C. Moore necessarily had a powerful influence upon his contemporaries, and will be felt far into the future. It was the future to which he looked to justify his advanced ideas, and to place the stamp of disapproval upon the carpers of the present. No man ever had a firmer faith in Time as the irresistible physician for things ill, or was more confident that the piercing sunlight of the future would drive evil into dark corners, and finally into the bottomless abyss. Mr. Moore was essentially a sanguine man. He was deeply conscious of abuses in our social and political system, but none seemed to him incurable. In truth obstacles, near or remote, never daunted his hopeful and eager spirit. The common impediments from day to day, of which he had more than his share, did not discourage him. He was bred to such things. They were a part of his childhood, they were in his path as a youth, they were never wholly out of it as a man, but with surpassing energy he leaped them in order, and at the end could look back at an army of surmounted barriers, such as comparatively few men have encountered in their individual experience. His Scotch-Irish blood gave him the victory, as it gave him honesty of purpose and high ideals. Orren C. Moore was born in New Hampton, N. H., August 10, 1839, and was one of eleven children, only three of whom survive. He was directly descended from the Scotch-Irish, who, after coming to this country, settled at Londonderry, and his great grandfather, Col. Robert Moore, famed for his ...