Kings County Biographies


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MOORE, ROBERT ANDERSON
 
     As president of the Lemoore Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Kings 
county Republican central committee Robert Anderson Moore has become well known 
throughout central California, and he has other claims to distinction than 
these. Born in Grant county, Wis., in 1861, he lived there until fifteen years 
old, when his family moved to Minnesota and later to Oregon. He came, 
eventually, to California, and after stopping for a time in Los Angeles came to 
Kings county and became a salesman in the McKenna Brothers� hardware store. He 
mastered the business and acquired great popularity with its patrons and in 1890 
bought the establishment, which he conducted with success until 1911, when he 
sold it to the Lemoore Hardware Company. 
 
     Since disposing of his hardware interests Mr. Moore has interested himself 
in real estate operations. He owns two ranches, one of forty acres, three miles 
north of town, and one of one hundred and sixty acres, ten miles south and near 
the lake; the former is in vineyard, the latter in barley and alfalfa. He has 
invested to some extent in oil property and is a director in the Mount Vernon 
Oil Company, which is operating in the Devil�s Den field. He was one of the 
organizers and is in his second year as president of the Lemoore Chamber of 
Commerce. As chairman of the Kings county Republican central committee and in 
other capacities he has long been active in political work, and he was three 
times elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the city of Lemoore, serving 
two years as chairman of that body. Socially he affiliates with the Odd Fellows 
and the Foresters. 
 
     In 1886 Mr. Moore married Miss Clara H. Peck, a native of Hollister, Cal. 
Their son, B. C. Moore, is the successful manager of an automobile garage. 
During all the years of his residence at Lemoore, Mr. Moore has manifested a 
lively interest in the development and prosperity of the town, and as a man of 
public spirit he has cheerfully and generously done much for the betterment of 
local conditions as occasion has presented itself. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913 Pp 429, 430
Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn