Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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FRED S. MOORE
 
            Located at 213 C Street, Marysville, Fred S. Moore�s busy and 
prosperous Oldsmobile and Columbia motor agency is one of the liveliest 
headquarters of its kind in Northern California.  Mr. Moore was born in 
Kilkenny, Ireland, on St. Patrick�s Day, in 1861, the son of Michael and Mary 
(McKelvey) Moore, the latter of whom a pious, lovable woman, is now deceased.  
They were worthy citizens, and devoted and affectionate parents, and enjoyed a 
large measure of neighborhood esteem.  
            Fred began his education in the Irish schools; and after he came 
over to New York, while yet a boy, he continued his studies for a time there.  
He early began to help support himself, selling newspapers on the street 
corners; and afterwards he was employed for six years in the enlarging of 
pictures, and later sold farm machinery.  From 1887 to 1889, he was with the 
Hudson Bay Company in Northern Canada and Alaska; and from 1890 to 1892, he 
engaged in buying furs on his own account.  In 1893-1894 he was a realtor in 
Winnipeg; and in 1894 he homesteaded and bought lands in Manitoba, acquiring 
1280 acres, and thereafter farmed to wheat until 1897, when he started for 
Dawson and was among the first men in after the gold-rush to the Klondike.  In 
the fall he returned to Seattle and, going to Idaho, purchased horses at Sand 
Point, and then took them to Alaska, where he engaged in packing goods over 
Chilcoot Pass to White Horse.  Two years later he sold his outfit to the 
government and returned to the States.  He spent two and a half years in Paris, 
France, and after visiting his old home in Ireland returned to New York, 
proceeded thence to Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1906, and for a year was again engaged 
in packing goods to the mines.  In 1908 he located in Cleveland, in the employ 
of the R. E. Olds Company, and there continued in the automobile business until 
he located in Marysville, in 1917.  Since his arrival in Marysville, he has been 
in business for himself, and has been more than ordinarily successful.  He has 
all the territory north of Sacramento, as far as the Oregon line, and he 
represents a couple of high-grade, superior automobiles of such exceptional 
appeal in their various advantages that they practically sell themselves.  While 
in Cleveland, Mr. Moore sold the first Oldsmobile ever made; and he now has in 
his possession that same identical car, and it is in running order.  He has 
taken the prize in San Francisco and Sacramento automobile shows for having the 
oldest car that is still in running condition.
            In 1919, at Yuba City, Mr. Moore was married to Mrs. Minnie (Bole) 
Duncan, a popular daughter of Sutter County.  She had two children by her first 
marriage, a daughter Ruth, now Mrs. Tull of Yuba City, and a son Louis Duncan.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 775-776