San Francisco County Biographies

GEORGE A. MOORE

Transcribed Dorene Paterson.

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	President of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of 
California, was born in Philadelphia, February 9, 1834.  His father, Herbert T. 
Moore, a native of Maine, descended from English ancestry that settled in 
America during the reign of Queen Anne.  Mr. Moore was reared and educated 
mostly in New York City, and was a student of medicine and the natural sciences.
     During all his mature life he has been engaged in and devoted to the 
insurance business, and is now giving his attention to the interests of the 
Pacific Mutual Insurance Company.  Early in his history he was engaged in fire 
and inland marine insurance.  In 1864 he became general agent for life insurance 
companies, and in 1874 came to California.  In 1876 he accepted a position with 
the company with which he has ever since been connected; serving first as 
managing director and afterward as vice-president, until in 1880 he became 
president of the company.  During his presidency the assets of the company have 
increased 200 per cent, and its agencies have been extended into thirty States 
and Territories, thereby adding largely to the volume of its business and annual 
income.
 
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, page 161, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.