Baden's First 100 YearsPage Nine
When the house was completed my grandfather, James A. Moore, Jr., then only a boy of 12, came there to take care of some livestock on the farm until the family arrived from Pittsburgh. While he was there all alone, some wolves that had ben prowling around the house looked in the kitchen window. He lost no time in doarding up the window. That must have been a lonely job for a boy of twelve years old. The house was burned one night and only the brick walls remained standing. It was presumed that the fire was started by persons who thought that the house was intended to be used as a tavern, because it was so large. They probably feared that it would take away trade from other taverns along the road to Pittsburgh. Great-grandfather Moore rebuilt the house and came to Baden in 1826. He cleared the ground and farmed it until his death in 1848. After that Great-grandmother Moore continued to live on the farm until her death in 1855. After her death the farm was divided amoung the sons. The part now known as the Phillips property went to brothers of my grandfather who soon sold their properties. The present Moore property was given to Grandfather James A. Moore and many years later the front portion was divided amoung his children, William H. Moore, Alciphron M. Pier and my mother, Margaret Moore Machesney. A frame house had been built near the river where my grandfather and his family lived when they came to Baden at the beginning of the Civil War, to wait a few months until the war should blow over. Grandfather Moore was a painstaking and capable workman and he had an inventive mind. He invented and patented a machine for making a wire and paling fence. He made a small workable steam engine which was so small that it could be placed on a brick. He made a canoe by stretching paper over a framework and then varnishing it. This method was used many years later in making racing boats. Grandfather Moore made the patterns for the first locomotive to be built this side of the Allegheny Mountains. The frame house in which Grandfather Moore lived was torn down 30 years ago. In 1866, mother's brother, William Moore, built the house facing the river where his son Duncan Moore and his family now live. In 1895, my mother built the brick house which the Pate family now own. In 1918, I built the house where I still live. Homes have been built in Baden by generations of the family and the sixth generation of the Moore family since the coming to Baden is still living here. The original house built by the first generation is still standing and is a fine house. It is now owned and occupied by Mr. Charles Miller. The property once had a hedge 200 feet in length along the State Highway, a semicircular driveway, a large lawn of fine grass, and
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