Alameda County Biographies

W. W. MOORE

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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            Was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, February 1, 1838, and there 
received his early schooling.  At the age of thirteen years he shipped in the 
Unites States Navy, and served five years and nine months, after which he made 
several voyages in the merchant service in Vanderbilt�s line, running between 
New York and Havre, France.  Shipping afterwards in Boston in the employ of 
Robinson, Wiggins & Co., of that city, and subsequently with Silva, and J. J. 
Sparrowhawk, he made a trip to the coast of Africa in the bark Hazard, and in 
her returned as cabin passenger at the end of fourteen months.  After a three 
months� stay at home, he left for California, arriving in San Francisco May 7, 
1859. His first employment there was driving a coach for the International 
Hotel, and was present during the altercation which ended in the Broderick-Terry 
difficulty.  In 1859 he proceeded to southern Oregon, where he served as Deputy 
Sheriff under James Hendershott.  In March, 1861, he left there, and coming 
south took up his permanent residence in Oakland, Alameda County.  His first 
occupation was brick-making, at the head of the bridge on General Williams� 
unimproved property, for J. O. Minor, at which he continued two years; he next 
drove an express wagon for Wingate.  In 1863 Ed. Newlands brought a hack to 
Oakland, which Mr. Moore drove for the first three months; he then married, 
purchased the hack aforesaid, and has continued in the business ever since.  Mr. 
Moore is an ardent worker in the ranks of the Democratic Party, and was a prime 
mover in the organization of the Hancock Fire Brigade of Oakland.  He is an 
active worker in the Independent Order of Chosen Friends of the Pacific Coast; 
he is now the District Deputy of Alameda Co., he is also a Past Chancellor of 
the Knights of Pythias, Liberty Lodge, No. 35.  He married Miss Maggie Cassidy, 
a native of Ireland, in 1863, and has the following family:  five children, 
three boys and two girls.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 947