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CHARLES IRWIN DOUGLAS MOORE
Charles Irwin Douglas Moore, vice
president and associate superintendent of agencies of the Pacific Mutual Life
Insurance Company of California, has been a resident of this state during the
past forty-two years and for more than three decades has been successfully
identified with the insurance business in Los Angeles. He was born at Islington, near Toronto,
Ontario, February 16, 1865, son of James and Jacobina
(Campbell) Moore. He was reared on a
farm, attended the Weston high school in Ontario, and in 1888 was graduated
with the A. B. degree from Victoria University at Toronto, winning the Prince
of Wales gold medal for general proficiency covering the four years of his college
course. That was then the highest honor
which the University could bestow. For
three years after graduation he was teacher in a mission college for boys at
Tokyo, Japan. On returning to America in
1891 he remained in California and for ten years was connected with the schools
of Santa Monica, at first as teacher in the high school and later as supervisor
of all the schools of that community.
Mr. Moore in 1902 began selling
insurance for the Conservative Life Company of Los Angeles. In 1906, when the Conservative Life was
consolidated with the Pacific Mutual, he was appointed assistant secretary of
the latter company. In 1907 he was made
secretary, in 1920 he was made a vice president, and subsequently was given the
additional title of associate superintendent of agencies. Mr. Moore has edited the Pacific Mutual News
for almost a quarter of a century, a paper recognized as one of the outstanding
life insurance house organs of the United States.
Mr. Moore was for many years a
director of the Los Angeles Young Men’s Christian Association, serving on its
various committees, and was for three years a member of the National Council of
the Young Men’s Christian Association.
He was active in the organization of the Los Angeles Welfare
Association, was a member of its board of directors for six years and has had a
prominent part in the Community Chest.
He is a member and a trustee of the West Adams Methodist Church, is a
trustee of the University of Southern California, a director of the University
Religious Conference, a member of the California Club, Westport Beach Club and
the California Historical Association.
In 1892 Mr. Moore was united in
marriage to Emily Maud Cochran. They
became the parents of three children:
Douglas E. C. served with the rank of ensign in
the United States Navy during the World War and is now vice president and
assistant counsel of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. He married Kathryn Chapin. Rutherford D. was with the Marine Corps
during the War and is now a general insurance agent in Los Angeles. He married Sophie R. Campbell and they have
two children, Isabelle C. and George Cochran.
Catherine Isabelle, the wife of Richardson A. Hill, is the mother of
Douglas E. C. Hill.
A very happy and well deserved
tribute given Mr. Moore some years ago is still essentially true: “He loves his profession, loves flowers,
writes poetry, and is an unfailing contributor to the morale and efficiency of
the great organization which he serves as an official, and a splendid example of
the balanced adjustment which a few rare men can make between devotion to their
business and to the human and personal interests of life.”
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 811-812,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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