Biography

09/26/1817 - 11/28/1898

MOORE, Dr. Charles, a Representative from Montgomery County; born, September 26, 1817 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; D.D.S., Philadelphia Dental College; surgical instrument maker; dental surgeon; elected, council, Pottstown; school director, Pottstown; elected, secretary, school board, Pottstown; secretary and treasurer, Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Pottstown; secretary, Pottstown Gas Company; president, Guardian Loan and Building Association; appointed, state weather observer at Norristown (1887); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1888; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1890); died, November 28, 1898 in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Edgewood Cemetery, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.