A. Moore, Jr.
Retired president of the Bank of Clarke County who presided at the first stockholders' meeting of the new Clarke County Building and Loan Association in September 1922, an association he had long urged.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of September 28, 1922 reports that at the first meeting for stock subscriptions of the new Building and Loan Association for Clarke County, Hon. A. Moore, Jr., retired president of the Bank of Clarke County, presided and was one of the first to sign for stock, and that he had been urging for years the organization of a building and loan association to encourage home-building in the county.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of September 28, 1922 reports that at the first meeting for stock subscriptions of the new Building and Loan Association for Clarke County, Hon. A. Moore, Jr., retired president of the Bank of Clarke County, presided and was one of the first to sign for stock, and that he had been urging for years the organization of a building and loan association to encourage home-building in the county.
What the source supports
That A. Moore, Jr., retired president of the Bank of Clarke County, presided at the first stockholders' meeting of the new Building and Loan Association in September 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The item does not say when he was president of the bank or where he lived. He is not linked to any other Moore.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The September 28, 1922 report.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., September 28, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-09-28 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report of the first stockholders' meeting of the new Building and Loan Association
Relevant passageThe new Building and Loan Asso-; elation [Association] ter [for] the whole of Clarke eoun I ty [county] started off with a rash [rush], at the first meeting for stock subscriptions Tuesday night. ... Hon. A. Moore, Jr., retired President of the Bank of Clarke County, presided at the first stockholders ! meeting and was one of the first to affix his name to an application blank i for stock. Mr. Moore has been urging for years the organisation of a ' Building and Loan Association which ! would encourage home-building in 1 Clarke county.
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