John Trotwood Moore
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| Born |
John Moore, Jr. August 26, 1858 Marion, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | May 10, 1929 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Olivet Cemetery |
| Residence |
Columbia, Tennessee, U.S. Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Howard College |
| Occupation | Journalist, historian, novelist |
| Spouse(s) | Florence W. Allen Mary Brown Daniel |
| Children | 1 son (Merrill Moore), 2 daughters |
| Parent(s) | John Moore Emily Moore |
John Trotwood Moore (1858-1929) was an American journalist, writer and local historian. He was the author of many poems, short stories and novels. He served as the State Librarian and Archivist of Tennessee from 1919 to 1929. He was "an apologist for the Old South", and a proponent of lynching.
John Moore, Jr., was born on August 26, 1858 in Marion, Alabama. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. His father, John Moore, was a lawyer and Confederate veteran. His mother was named Emily. He had a sister, who later married a professor at Vanderbilt University.
Moore graduated from Howard College, now known as Samford University, where he studied the classics. While in college, he wrote for the The Howard College Magazine. Later, he studied the law with Hilary A. Herbert.
Moore started his career as a journalist for The Marion Commonwealth, a newspaper in Marion, Alabama. He was a schoolteacher in Monterey, Butler County, Alabama and a school principal in Pine Apple, Alabama in the early 1880s.
Moore became a columnist for Clark's Horse Review in 1885. He took the penname of "Trotwood" after Betsey Trotwood, a character in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield. His column, called "Pacing Department", included short stories, poems and local histories. In 1897, Moore decided to publish a collection of his columns, entitled Songs and Stories from Tennessee. Four years later, in 1901, he published his first novel A Summer Hymnal. Over the years, Moore published several other novels.
Moore founded Trotwood's Monthly, an agrarian magazine, in 1905. A year later, as it merged with Robert Love Taylor's magazine, it became known as the Taylor-Trotwood Magazine. Moore was the chief writer and editor. The magazine was discontinued in 1910. Meanwhile, he was the author of historical sketches on Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, James K. Polk and Sam Houston. He was also a contributor to The Saturday Evening Post.
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