Rev. Jere Moore, A. M., was born at Tusculum, Greene Co., Tenn., November 6, 1845, the son of Anthony and Nancy P. (Holt) Moore. The next ancestors were Anthony, born June 26, 1803, in Greene County, and died July 20, 1885; David, born May 14, 1769, in Pennsylvania, and Anthony, Sr., born in 1732, in Pennsylvania, coming to East Tennessee with his family in 1778. The latter, detained a year to raise a company to go through what was then called “The Wilderness,” liked the country so well that he remained here, one of the earliest settlers of East Tennessee. The mother was born in Greene County, March 26, 1807, and died April 18, 1879. She was the daughter of David Holt, of Rockbridge County, Va. Our subject, the next youngest of eight children, was educated at Greeneville and Tusculum College, and graduated in 18711; then in 1874 graduated from the Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio. In September, 1874, he was ordained by the Holston Presbytery at Kingsport, and for a year was a Presbyterian missionary. He has since preached at Mount Bethel, Oakland, and other churches. He was a member of the General Assembly at Pittsburgh in 1878, and at Saratoga in 1883. He was giving his life to the ministry, when, in 1883, he was called to the presidency of the Greeneville and Tusculum College, which he accepted in June, 1883. On December 10, 1874, he married Belle R., a daughter of E. E. Mathes, of Washington County, where she was born September 4, 1850. Their children are Myrtie L., born February 8, 1876; David E., born October 7, 1877; A. Holt, born August 19, 1879; Melvin M., born February G, 1882; Maggie B., born September 21, 1883, and one boy unnamed, born April 23, 1887.
