Moore, Perry (Perry D.)

Perry Moore was born in Mears, Oceana County, Michigan, January 31, 1866. His first wife Mate Farmer and their daughter Sibyl died in the Iroquois Theater Fire in Chicago in 1903. Moore traveled to the Nome area in about 1900 where he lived with his second wife Lovey Jane Moore until at least 1909, when they were enumerated in the census of that year. Family tradition holds that Moore "froze his lungs in Alaska," a possible reference to tuberculosis. The 1920 census shows Perry and Lovey both as patients in a sanatorium in Arizona. Perry died in the summer of 1921.

From the description of Perry Moore photograph collection, 1900-1903 [graphic]. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 247068054