John C. Moore

John Courtney Moore (early 1830s – October 27, 1915) was an American politician and journalist who served as the first mayor of Denver from 1859 to 1861. He was an early settler of Denver, while the area was still a territory of the United States. Moore was a newspaper journalist and publisher, working on papers in Denver, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Pueblo, Colorado. During the American Civil War, he was a judge adjutant general and colonel in the Confederate States Army.

Early life and education Moore was born between 1830 and 1834. His father was John S. Moore, a physician, who co-founded the first medical college west of the Mississippi River.

On Larimer Street in autumn of 1860 - Arrival of a steam boiler hauled from the Missouri River by five yoke of oxen. In 1859, he was elected Territory Representative from the 1st District.

Military service

When the American Civil War began, Moore returned to Missouri and first served with the Missouri State Guards under Sterling Price. He fought in the Battle of Pea Ridge in the battery of soldiers from St. Louis under Captain Emmett MacDonald.

Later life Moore returned to St. Louis and worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and then moved to Kansas City, where he founded the Kansas City Times. where he founded the Pueblo Democrat and the Pueblo Press. He and his wife had four children, Harris, Courtney, Sidney, and a daughter who married Charles Cole. He died on October 27, 1915, at the home of his son Harris L. Moore in Excelsior Springs, Missouri.