Philip North Moore

Background

Philip N. Moore was born on July 8, 1849, in Connersville, Indiana, the son of Henry C. Moore and Susan H. North, and a descendant of John North who settled in Connecticut in 1635.

Education

After graduating in 1870 from the classical course at Miami University, he went to the School of Mines, Columbia University, where he was a special student, 1870 - 1872.

Career

The next six years he spent in geological work under such distinguished men as T. B. Brooks, Raphael Pumpelly, and N. S. Shaler, and then, after six months in Europe, went to Leadville, Colorado, in 1878. Here he was superintendent of the first lead smelting works and built the second plant, the La Plata. After a couple of years he ventured into independent development.

In 1882 he moved to Kentucky, where at Slate Creek Moore acquired a quarter interest in a smelting works of which he was also manager.

In 1889 he moved to St. Louis to obtain better school facilities for his children, but retained charge of the Kentucky enterprise until it was worked out. Meanwhile he had acquired an iron property in Alabama, of which he was president for eighteen years, and during all this time he practised as a consulting mining engineer, sometimes traveling as much as 50, 000 miles in twelve months. Among other enterprises he developed the Conrey Placer Mining Company, Montana, an important part of the estate which Gordon McKay left for the benefit of the mining school at Harvard University.

During the period of the Great War he developed the Admiralty Zinc Company, Oklahoma. As president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1917 he was an important factor in co"rdination work on strategic minerals through the War Minerals Committee. In that same year he organized the American Engineering Council, which cooperated with the Council of National Defense in stimulating the production of necessary minerals.

In 1919 he was called to Washington to serve as chairman of the War Minerals Relief Commission, created by Congress to indemnify those who undertook mineral production at government solicitation but had not recouped their expenditures by the time of the Armistice. In this capacity he acted until 1921, when he returned to St. Louis. For many years one of the board of managers of the Missouri Geological Survey, he was active in bringing about cooperation between engineers and legislature to promote the best interests of the state and in awakening engineers to a sense of their civic responsibilities. Philip N. Moore died on January 19, 1930, in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Achievements

• Philip North Moore was a noted mining engineer, who during his career served as the president of a large brown-iron-ore property in Alabama and was active in bringing about cooperation between engineers and legislature.

Connections

In 1879 Philip N. Moore married Mary Eva Perry, by whom he had a son and a daughter.

Father:

Henry Clay Moore

Mother:

Susan H. Moore (North)

Sister:

Mary Stibbs Currey (Moore)

Sister:

Caroline Atwood "Carrie" Moore

Wife:

Mary Eva Moore (Perry)

Mary Eva Moore (Perry) was an American clubwoman based in St. Louis, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and the National Council of Women.

Daughter:

Elizabeth Moore

Son:

Perry North Moore

Brother:

Robert Moore

Brother:

Paul Moore

Brother:

Franklin Moore

Brother:

Charles Whippo Moore

Brother:

Henry Clay Moore, Jr.