DR. W. I. MOORE was born November 6, 1844, in Union, now Webster County, Ky., and is a son of A. M. C. and Amanda (Ed-dings) Moore. The father was born in Muhlenburgh County, and died in 1870, aged fifty. The mother was born in Union County, and died in 1877, aged fifty. Our subject was reared on his father's farm and received a good literary education; he commenced the study of medicine at the age of eighteen, and three years later studied under the preceptorship of Dr. Jeff Holeman, after which he went to Louisville, and entered the Kentucky School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1870; he also received an honorary degree from the University at Louisville; he then located in Clayville, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. The Doctor has lost but fifty days' practice since coming here. He has held the office of deputy county clerk the past fourteen years. He is secretary of the Webster County Medical Association, and is chairman of the board of health in the county at this time, and has been a member of the United Baptist Church since the age of eighteen, and is now moderator of that body. The Doctor was married in 1867, to Miss Penelope J. Hammack, a native of Union County. Three sons and two daughters have blessed their union. Respective ages: Mary, sixteen, May 19, 1885; Lorney, eleven, March 8, 1885; Bain, nine, March 3, 1885; Leula, four, January 30, 1885; Steven Compton, born, April 4, 1885.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Page 1040.