Santa Barbara County Biographies

SAMUEL T. MOORE

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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SAMUEL T. MOORE was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1828. His father was a stone 
dealer, owning extensive quarries. Samuel T. learned the trade of stone-cutting 
and carving in his native place, serving an apprenticeship or seven years, and 
becoming proficient in every kind of masonry He immigrated to the United States 
in 1867 and settled in Minnesota. The weather, however, being too severe, he soon 
afterward located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he worked six years. In 1873 
he came to California. After spending about one year in Los Angeles, he came to 
Santa Barbara and arranged for permanent settlement. He soon set up his business 
on State street, and in 1881 established his present yard in East Santa Barbara near 
the cemetery, purchasing the corner lot and erecting his residence in 1889. He keeps 
in stock Italian and Vermont marbles, and also all the popular granites of America 
and Scotland, and native stones. He has done much contract work in the city and 
was superintendent of the stone work for the residence of Mr. Dibble, also the J. F. 
Myer ane Garland Block, and many others. For the past nine years he has been 
superintendent of the cemetery. Mr. Moore has thoroughly identified himself with 
the best interests of Santa Barbara, has been quite successful in business and owns 
much paying property. 

Mr. Moore's first wife, a native of Cornwall, England, but a resident of Pennsylvania 
for a number of years, died in 1877, leaving two children. In 1878 he married Miss 
Charlotte Dixon, a native of Belfast, Ireland, but a resident in the family of Dr. William 
Hyde for eleven years in Stonington, Connecticut. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.