Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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PROF. J. W. MOORE. � Fresno offers vast opportunities for the business 
and professional men who have been attracted from abroad and near, due 
to its marvelously rapid growth within a comparatively short time. This 
city affords rare advantages in all educational avenues, chief among which 
might be mentioned the fine arts, and has been honored with the establish- 
ment of the institution known as "The Fresno Academy of Music" by Prof. 
J. W. Moore, 1302 N Street, corner of Merced, where he installed for musical 
students a pipe-organ, piano, violin, voice, theory and harmony department, 
since the year 1916. 

Professor Moore was born in Yorkshire, England. May 1, 1870, and was 
reared in a refined and religious home. His father being a pipe organist and 
choir director, J. W. Moore was given every advantage for a thorough 
musical education, for which he demonstrated rare talent and aptitude, 
having played a pipe-organ in church at the early age of eight years. He grad- 
uated from the Royal Academy of Music in London, and Royal College 
of Organists, London, after which he traveled extensively in musical 
centers of Europe, studied the organ under Professor Guilmant of Paris, one 
of the world's leading organists ; also Sparks of London, Dr. Crow of Ripon, 
and the late Prof W. T. Best of Liverpool. After completing his studies 
Professor Moore resided some years in Bradford, England where he was 
Municipal Organist, also engaged in teaching, specializing in voice culture, 
piano and pipe-organ. 

In 1906 Professor Moore visited Southern California where the rec- 
ognition of his rare ability was so marked that he was induced to yield to 
the public's enthusiastic appeal for his permanently locating here where his 
talent was so needed and keenly appreciated by minds capable of recognizing 
his artistic efficiency. Since then many large audiences of California have 
recognized, with keen appreciation, Professor Moore as a talented musician 
and composer of no mean ability. 

Professor Moore's Organ Recitals at the Auditorium in Fresno, as well 
as his work at the local churches have added superlatively to the reputation 
this city enjoys far and near as a musical center where rare talent may be 
found, and here such artists will find, in the growing tide of population, a 
fertile field for the inculcation of their talents upon the rising generation.