Moore, Frank Lincoln, 1866-1935.

Moore (1866-1935) was born in Olivet, Michigan, the son of Merritt (1834-1908) and Mary Ann Wright Moore (1836-1923).

Frank Moore graduated from Ionia High School, a private preparatory school in Ionia, Michigan, in 1888. Although his parents were Congregationalists, Frank converted to the Presbyterian church in 1886 and from 1888-1890 organized sunday schools in Wyoming Territory. He was married in 1891 to Coral Evelina Leigh (b. 1867), whom he met while attending Ionia High School.

From 1890-1891 Frank attended the University of Michigan and switched back to Congregationalism. He was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1892 and graduated from the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1897. From 1892-1897 he also served as a home missionary in Wyoming and Colorado. Following his graduation from the seminary, Frank served as a pastor in the First Congregation Church in Cheyenne, Wyoming from 1905-1913 before assuming the position of secretary of the Congregational Home Missionary Society of Colorado and Utah from 1913-1918. Frank served as National Secretary of Missions for the Congregational Home Missionary Society from 1918-1926 and from 1926-1935 he was secretary of the Congregation Church Home Extension Boards western division.

In 1962 Frank's son, Austin L. Moore, edited Frank's diaries and letters and published "Souls and Saddlebags: The Diaries and Correspondence of Frank L. Moore, Western Missionary, 1888-1896."