Felonise B. Moore
Submitted by Robert Kingrey
Source: Edited by Simeon D.Fess
Felonise B. Moore, secretary,
treasurer and general manager of the Tribune Publishing
Company of Ironton, is an outstanding figure in
newspaper circles in her section of Ohio. She has given her
entire life to the journalistic work and spirit of
enterprise which she displays is the basic element of the
gratifying success she has attended The Evening and Sunday
Tribune.
She was born in Ironton, Ohio,
December 20, 1886, and is the daughter of Cyrus H.
and Fannie (Bartram) Moore, the mother also a naïve
of Ironton. The father was born in Guyandotte, West
Virginia, and in his boyhood came to Ironton, Ohio
where he was employed first as a telegraph messenger. He
later took up the study of telegraphy and in due course of
time was made manager of the Western Union office, in which
capacity he served for several years. He then accepted a
position as teller in the First National Bank, where he
remained until the early 90’s, when he purchased the Ironton
Book Store, continuing in the business until 1899, when his
father-in-law died and he took over the grocery business,
which Mr. Bartram had owned and conducted.
This Mr. Moore carried on until
1906, when he bought the old Ironton Register, a
daily paper, which he published until his death on the 24th
of April 1916. On the 16th of February 1886, he
married Fannie Bartram, a daughter of Mark S. and
Martha (Peters) Bartram, the former a native of
Pennsylvania and the latter of Lawrence County, Ohio. Mr.
Bartram was one of the first furnace men in Lawrence
County and was thus actively associated with the industrial
development of this section. To Mr. and Mrs. Moore
four children were born.
Felonise B. Moore removed to
Boston, Massachusetts, and following her return home she
took charge of the Associated Charities for several years,
acting in that capacity until the death of her father, when
she took over management of the Ironton Daily Register.
In 1926 this paper and the Irontonian were merged, forming
the Ironton Tribune, of which Miss Moore has since
been business manager. The paper has a circulation of six
thousand and employment is given to twenty-six people, with
fifty-five more on the circulation list. The business is
carried on under the name of the Brush-Moore Newspapers,
Inc., and the company has interest in the Ironton Tribune.
Miss Moore was president of the
Ironton Business and Professional Women’s Club for
1934-1936 and as vice president of the Women’s Civic Council
of Ironton for the same period. She votes with the
Republican Party and always keeps well informed on the
questions and issues of the day. Her religious faith is that
of the Methodist Episcopal and the sterling worth of her
character has gained her high esteem and warm regard of
those with whom she has been associated. She has proved
exceedingly capable in newspaper work and as a business
executive has measured up to high standards, this being
indicated in the success of the papers with which she is
connected.
