Eliakim Hastings Moore (June 19, 1812 – April 4, 1900) was an American politician who served one term as a

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from

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from 1869 to 1871.

Biography

Moore was born to David & Dolly (Hastings) Moore in

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, and moved with his parents to

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and in 1817 to

Athens County, Ohio Athens County is a county in southeastern Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 62,431. Its county seat is Athens. The county was formed in 1805 from Washington County. Because the original state university (Ohio University) was fo ...

. He attended the common schools, and later educated himself at night as a civil engineer. Moore served as County surveyor from 1836-1846, and later as Auditor for Athens County from 1846-1860. He served as collector of internal revenue for the Marietta-Athens district of Ohio from 1862-1866, later organizing the First National Bank of Athens in 1863 and was connected therewith as president and director until about 1895. Moore was elected as a

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to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871), but was not a candidate for renomination in 1870. After politics, he engaged in railroad enterprises in Athens, Ohio, as well as being a Trustee of

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at Athens. Moore died in Athens April 4, 1900, and was interred in West Union Street Cemetery. The mathematician

E. H. Moore Eliakim Hastings Moore (; January 26, 1862 – December 30, 1932), usually cited as E. H. Moore or E. Hastings Moore, was an American mathematician. Life Moore, the son of a Methodist minister and grandson of US Congressman Eliakim H. Moore, di ...

was his grandson.

Sources

External links

Descendants of Thomas Hastings website

Descendants of Thomas Hastings on Facebook
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