Marshall F. Moore

Moore was born in Binghamton, New York, Broome County, on February 12, 1829. He attended Yale University. He married Francis Fanny Van Trump on June 7, 1859. The couple had three children; Mary Louise, Frances, and Thomas.[1]

Moore served as a state judge in the Common Pleas Court and as a prosecuting attorney in Sioux City, Iowa.[2]

Moore joined the Union Army during the civil war and served under George McClellan in Virginia and under Sherman. The colonel commanded the 69th Ohio Infantry Regiment and led various brigades for much of the war. He was at Rich Mountain, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Jonesboro and Missionary Ridge. He resigned in 1864 and was brevetted major general on March 13, 1865.

Moore was Governor of Washington Territory from 1867 to 1869. He was accompanied to Olympia, Washington by his brother-in-law, Philemon Beecher Van Trump, who served as Moore's private secretary. Moore was a delegate to the United States Congress from Washington Territory in 1868.[3] He also was an attorney in New Orleans.

Moore died in Olympia, Thurston County, Washington, on February 26, 1870. He is interred at Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington.

• Meany, Edmond S (1915). Governors of Washington : territorial and state. University of Washington.Available online through the Washington State Library's Classics in Washington History collection

• Marshall F. Moore at Find a Grave
• The Political Graveyard
• Washington Secretary of State