{"id":24,"date":"2014-11-22T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2018-03-27T12:04:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T17:04:56","slug":"franklin-moore-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/franklin-moore\/franklin-moore-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Moore I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of the Franklin Moore&#8217;s have been successful and, as a result, the early Franklin&#8217;s contributions have been noted in the historical book, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/m\/micounty\/arx2236.0001.001\/7?rgn=full+text;view=image\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>History of St. Clair County<\/em><\/a> published in 1883.\u00a0 Following is an excerpt from the book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25\" style=\"width: 551px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/franklinmoore1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-25 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/franklinmoore1.jpg\" alt=\"The first Franklin Moore 1845-1915\" width=\"551\" height=\"821\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first Franklin Moore 1845-1915<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/frankmoorea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75\" src=\"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/frankmoorea.jpg\" alt=\"FrankMoorea\" width=\"680\" height=\"792\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/frankmooreb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76\" src=\"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/frankmooreb.jpg\" alt=\"FrankMooreb\" width=\"680\" height=\"733\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-200\" src=\"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/peg20.jpg\" alt=\"Peg20\" width=\"1540\" height=\"2592\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The description above recounts many of Franklin&#8217;s accomplishments, but there was a mischievous side to him as well.\u00a0 During his time at Yale he was disciplined a few times and those demerits are still part of his permanent record.\u00a0 The notation in the <a title=\"F Moore Yale infractions\" href=\"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/f-moore-yale-infractions.pdf\">Yale student infractions ledger<\/a> doesn&#8217;t explain the offense that led to his being &#8220;required to leave town immediately and to be absent until after Commencement, but recommended for a degree; his case to be presented as a special one.&#8221; Family lore, though, is that he was expelled for leading a horse upstairs in a dormitory, presumably with three friends that received lesser punishments for the incident.\u00a0 While horses can climb stairs, they cannot comfortably walk back down.\u00a0 The horse&#8217;s fate has been lost over the past century and a half, but Franklin returned to Yale, resumed his studies, and graduated with the class behind him in 1868.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-203 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/peg25.jpg\" alt=\"Peg25\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of the Franklin Moore&#8217;s have been successful and, as a result, the early Franklin&#8217;s contributions have been noted in the historical book, History of St. Clair County published in 1883.\u00a0 Following is an excerpt from the book. &nbsp; The description above recounts many of Franklin&#8217;s accomplishments, but there was a mischievous side to him &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/franklin-moore\/franklin-moore-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Franklin Moore I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75742328,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":"","_starter_page_template":"","_wpcom_template_layout_category":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75742328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/307"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankmoore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}