{"id":730,"date":"2016-11-10T22:32:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T22:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/moores\/"},"modified":"2016-11-10T22:32:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T22:32:37","slug":"moores","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/moores\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moore’s of Oaklea – Based On The Muir Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Moore’s of Oaklea<\/span>
\nThe Muir family were the real-life models for “The Moore’s” characters
\nin Annie Fellows Johnston’s “Little Colonel” series<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Judge Moore”<\/span>
\n[Left]  patriarch of the Moore family and owner of Oaklea in the stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In real life his name was Peter Brown (P. B.) Muir, and his story closely follows his character in the Little Colonel books.<\/p>\n

(with thanks to Kurt X. Metzmeier, Associate Director, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Library, University of Louisville for the picture and information about Judge P.B. Muir )<\/p>\n

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\"\"
\nThe Little Colonel and Rob Moore  “At the Measuring Tree”
\nPhoto by Kate Matthews<\/p>\n

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Miss Anna Burge Muir
\nAnna Moore of the stories
\nRob’s Cousin *<\/p>\n

Photo from The Sunday Herald Post
\nLouisville, Kentucky
\nDecember 23, 1928
\nPhotos by Standiford <\/p>\n

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The Moore’s of Oaklea The Muir family were the real-life models for “The Moore’s” characters in Annie Fellows Johnston’s “Little Colonel” series “Judge Moore” [Left]  patriarch of the Moore family and owner of Oaklea in the stories. In real life his name was Peter Brown (P. B.) Muir, and his story closely follows his character in the Little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-730","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}