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Subject: [CO-ROOTS-L] BIO: LEWIS CLARK MOORE
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:14:46 -0400

"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J.
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II

p. 58-59



LEWIS CLARK MOORE.

Lewis Clark Moore, president of the First National Bank of Fort
Collins, an institution of high standing and great moment to the
community, was born in Findlay, Ohio, January 24. 1866. He acquired his
education in the public schools of his native state and in the Eastman
Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He came to Colorado in
1885, in the nineteenth year of his age, and after living at Idaho
Springs, for a short time removed to Fort Collins in June, 1887. Soon
after taking up his abode in the last named city he was appointed clerk
of the county court and served in that capacity for about eighteen
months. On the 1st of January, 1889, he accepted the position of
bookkeeper in the First National Bank and was soon afterward promoted
to the position of assistant cashier, while subsequently he was
advanced to the position of cashier of the bank. in which capacity he
continued to serve for a number of years. He early evinced a keen
insight into business matters and by the judicious investment of his
savings he began to accumulate considerable property and to be
recognized as an important factor in financial circles. He is a
careful, alert and methodical business man, a good judge of values and
his progress upward on the ladder of fortune has been rapid and safe.
He is rated as one of the most conservative men in Fort Collins and
also as one of the most successful, owing to the soundness of his
judgment and his keen sagacity in business affairs. Mr. Moore is a
quiet, unassuming gentleman. and although wedded to his business, is a
genial companion and is strongly attached to his home and friends.

On the 6th of July, 1893, Mr. Moore was united in marriage to
Miss Agnes Ferrier, of Liberty, Nebraska. Mrs. Moore came from Nebraska
in 1890 and was assistant to the principal of the high school for three
years prior to her marriage. She is a highly educated lady, cultured
and refined, and is a leader in educational, club and church work in
Fort Collins.

Mr. Moore is a Master Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of the
Mystic Shrine and has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish
Rite consistory. He also has membership with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and with the First
Presbyterian church of Fort Collins. In politics he is a Jacksonlan
democrat.

Among his more important activities may be mentioned his efforts
in behalf of irrigation. About 1905 he became interested in irrigation
matters, the storage and conservation of water and its proper
distribution. He was elected president of the North Poudre Irrigation
Company in 1909, when that company was in a bankrupt condition, and
after about nine years of operating the system he turned it over to his
successor in a very prosperous and safe condition. At the present time
the system is equal to any of the great irrigation systems in northern
Colorado. While he was president of that company, Halligan dam and
reservoir and No. 15 reservoir were built and the company's canals were
enlarged. Mr. Moore made no personal profit whatever by handling that
company but added many millions of wealth to the county and state in
directing and aiding it through its financial troubles. This was
characteristic of the man. He recognized the value of the enterprise to
the county if it was wisely controlled and he put forth every effort to
make it of public benefit. He has always been actuated by devotion to
the general good as well as by laudable ambition in the attainment of
individual success and his worth as a man and citizen is widely
acknowledged.

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