1856–1942

Introduction

Born: Feb­ru­ary 19, 1856, Wheel­ing, In­di­ana.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 1942. His obit­u­ary ap­peared in the Bell­ville Star, Rich­land Coun­ty, Ohio, Sep­tem­ber 10, 1942.

Buried: Bell­ville Ce­me­te­ry, Bell­ville, Ohio.

Biography

Charles was the son of Dr. Ad­di­son Moore and Nan­cy Kirley; hus­band of Georg­i­an­na Wil­son of Agos­ta, Ohio; and a des­cen­dant of a broth­er of hymn­ist Tho­mas Moore.

While ve­ry young, Moore showed an in­tense in­ter­est in vo­cal mu­sic. There was no mu­sic in the pub­lic schools in those days, but he at­tend­ed ev­e­ry sing­ing school he could reach. Soon he was con­duct­ing sing­ing schools and work­ing with con­certs, tra­vel­ing for ma­ny years with the Les­lie Con­cert Com­pa­ny as ten­or sol­o­ist.

Later, he was a pio­neer in the field of pub­lic school mu­sic. He taught in the pub­lic schools of Win­ches­ter, In­di­ana; Ma­ri­on, Ohio; and Cham­paign, Il­li­nois. He taught for 15 years in Cham­paign, and in towns sur­round­ing the ci­ty for 10 years more.

While liv­ing in Cham­paign, he was a mem­ber of the First Me­tho­dist Church, where he con­duct­ed the mu­sic in the Sun­day School. In 1926, he joined the But­ler Me­tho­dist church.

When he re­tired, he moved to a small farm near But­ler. He still main­tained his in­ter­est in mu­sic: He and his friend J. S. Gar­ber sang du­ets at fun­er­als, re­vi­vals and re­li­gious con­ven­tions ov­er most of Rich­land Coun­ty un­til a few years be­fore his death.

Works

Moore was well known as a com­pos­er of hymns and songs for schools. In col­lab­o­ra­tion with three of his broth­ers, all mu­sic teach­ers, he wrote the mu­sic book The Reg­u­lus, and later wrote Mus­ic­al Gems with his broth­er Mar­cel­lus.

His oth­er works in­clude:

Sources

Music

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Moore (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),