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Future port developer weds future state legislator
On this day in 1905, developer Hugh Benton Moore wed Helen Edmunds in
Kansas City. She was working as a nurse at the hospital where he was a
patient. One month after their wedding, the couple moved to Texas City,
Texas, of which Hugh Moore was the pioneer developer. He also served as
general manager of the Texas City Terminal Railroad and Mainland
Company. As a nurse, Helen Moore provided the only medical service in
Texas City until the first doctor arrived in 1907. She also became an
activist for woman suffrage, a crusade that eventually led to her 1923
election as president of the League of Women Voters of Texas. She was
also elected twice to the state legislature, where she established a
reputation for humanitarianism. Hugh Moore, meanwhile, devoted himself
to establishing Texas City as a major industrial port. He retired in May
1944, after all investment bonds for the townsite were redeemed, and
died of pneumonia in Santa Fe, New Mexico, thirty-nine years to the day
after his marriage. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Moore gave a
grant to the Salvation Army of Texas City for the construction of a
building to care for the poor. She died in 1968.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- MOORE, HUGH BENTON
- MOORE, HELEN EDMUNDS
- TEXAS CITY, TX
- LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF TEXAS
- WOMEN AND POLITICS
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