Santa Barbara County Biographies

FRED A. MOORE

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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FRED A. MOORE, at present the City Assessor of Santa Barbara, and a gentleman who has been 
largely interested in, the local press, was born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1856. His father was 
a prominent merchant of Pittsburg, and later at Baltimore, Maryland. They moved to Minnesota 
when our subject was an infant, and in 1863, after his father's decease, his mother, with himself 
and sister, came to San Francisco, where he began his education at the public schools, and then 
at Santa Clara College. In 1867 they moved to Santa Barbara, and he attended the mission for two 
years, and then took a scientific course at the Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, returning to Santa 
Barbara in 1872, and attended the Santa Barbara College for three years. He spent 1876 in San 
Francisco, returning in 1877 and connected himself with the Weekly Index, which he continued 
about one year. In 1878 he started The Independent, as a semi-weekly, and in 1879 bought out 
The Advertiser and consolidated the two In 1884 lie sold out his paper and engaged in fire insurance, 
which he has since continued, representing all the leading American and English companies, and 
carrying the principal insurance business of the city. He was first elected City Assessor in 1884, and 
re-elected in 1886 and 1888. Being unmarried, he resides with his mother and sister. Mr. Moore is 
a member of the society of Odd Fellows. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.