WALDO CLIFTON MOORE (1874-1953)
John Lupia submitted the following information from the online draft of his book of numismatic biographies for this week's
installment of his series. Thanks! As always, this is an excerpt with the full article and bibliography available online. This week's subject is
Waldo C. Moore. -Editor
Moore was a prolific contributor to The Numismatist publishing over 130 articles largely on paper money and tokens, and composed
dozens of poems.
Waldo Clifton Moore (1874-1953), was born on July 23, 1874, at West Baltimore (now Verona), Preble County, Ohio, son and eldest of five children
of John W. Moore (1850-1897), a native of Maryland of English-Dutch descent engaged as a building contractor, and his wife Mary Elizabeth Schnorf
Moore (1856-1940), of German descent.
He had worked on his family 200 acre farm "Clifmore" so named after the two families Clifton and Moore. The farm was a noted chicken
farm in its day for raising Orpington breed stock hens. Moore went to the local Harrison township public schools passing with highest honors the
Boxwell Exam and became certified to teach in several counties. He graduated from the Dayton Normal School, and also from Dayton Commercial
College.
In 1894, he attended the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio.
After passing the Civil Service Exams he was certified as a bookkeeper. He began teaching for six years and was promoted to principal at the
Ithaca Normal School, Ithaca, Ohio. He resigned in 1899 taking a post at the Peoples Banking Company.
There he served a cashier at the Peoples Banking Company. His numismatic and philatelic interests grew into a passion for collecting memorabilia
relating to Ohio. Moore is best known as a scrip collector specializing in Ohioan scrip, broken bank bills, shinplasters and bank and sutler's
checks, campaign buttons, medals, autographs, and shells. He also was a specialist in Civil War tokens and store cards.
In 1907, Moore issued a store card with the obverse legend MOORE"S HENNERY, LEWISBURG, O./WHITE/ORPINGTON/STOCK/1907 - Reverse :
CURRENT/FOR/ONE BIT/IN /EXCHANGE. The store card was a cash value token in exchange for twenty-five cents towards purchases of hens or eggs.
In 1911, he issued his own store card with a rebus on the obverse Awl + Tea + Hat + G [Cleft] + litters [hogs and hounds] + II [= two i's =
is] knot + gold doubloon. "All that glitters is not gold" and legend on the reverse WALDO C. MOORE/A.N.A. 637/LEWISBURG,
O./BANKER/NUMISMATIST/PHILATELIST/FOWL FANCIER/1911.
In 1912, he was appointed by President Taft to the U. S. Assay Commission.
From 1912 - 1917, Moore served as the General Secretary of the ANA.
From 1917 to 1919 he served on the ANA Board of Governors.
From 1919-1921 he served as the thirteenth president of the ANA.
In 1922, Moore became ANA Life Member No. 7.
In 1924, Moore served on the ANA Board of Directors.
In 1934, he retired from the Peoples Banking Company.
On January 5, 1935, Milfred Henry Bolender, Sale #94, auctioned a portion of the Moore collection. This sale took place the day following the
death of Henry Chapman, Jr.
He died on Saturday morning, January 24, 1953, at his home after a long illness. He is buried at Roselawn Cemetery, Lewisburg, Preble County,
Ohio.
The large hoard of Moore's scrip collection was inherited by family members who had no understanding of it or its value. It became broken up
into parcels and either stored away or sold to private dealers and collectors decades later.
In 1972, Moore was inducted into the ANA Hall of Fame.
To read the complete article, see:
MOORE, WALDO CLIFTON
(https://sites.google.com/a/numismaticmall.com/www/numismaticmall-com/moore-waldo-clifton)
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