San Francisco County Biographies

MOORE, HAYES & CO.

Transcribed Karen L. Pratt.

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	Of San Francisco, are selling agents for the Farmers� 
Alliance, and are also doing a commission business for other parties.  Their 
business is with the interior of the State, and consists principally in the 
handling of grain and other products of the farm.  The firm organized February 
1, 1891, and it is expected that it will be connected with the Farmers� Alliance 
in other States.
 
Mr. Moore, the senior member of the firm, is a native of Nova Scotia.  He has 
been in business in San Francisco for sixteen years, and during all this time 
has also been engaged in contracting and building, and has erected many of the 
finest buildings of the city.  He has established a good reputation as a 
reliable and worthy business man.  Mr. Hayes is a native son of San Francisco, 
born August 20, 1857, the son of John W. Hayes, a native of Virginia.  The 
latter came to San Francisco in 1850, and has been a business man of this city 
since that time.  He married Margaretta G. King, the daughter of Samuel D. King, 
the first Surveyor-General of the State of California.  They have six children, 
all of whom reside in San Francisco.  Mr. Hayes, the eldest son, was educated in 
the public and private schools of San Francisco.  In 1887 he was elected 
Secretary, Treasurer and Librarian of the Chamber of Commerce of this city, and 
has been re-elected five years in succession.  He is also Secretary of the 
Merchants� Club, and takes a deep interest in the commercial affairs of San 
Francisco.
 
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, page 668, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.