Sacramento County
Biographies
LEE DOUGLAS MOORE
LEE DOUGLAS MOORE.--A contractor well
acquainted with conditions in California, and who, therefore, knows the ins and
outs of his field of activity, is Lee Douglas Moore, who undertakes hauling,
dumping and excavating, using the best of trucks and the most modern
appliances. He was born in Lincoln
County, Missouri, on April 4, 1887, the son
of Thomas Henry and Martha Jane (Wyatt) Moore, both natives of the Iron
State. Both Mr. and Mrs. Moore attained to the good
old age of ninety years. They came to California
in 1909. They were the parents of eight
children, four boys and four girls, among whom our subject was the fourth child
in the order of birth.
Lee
Douglas Moore went to the public schools of his district, and then he attended Buchanan
College for a couple of years. After that he lived on a Missouri farm until
he was twenty-one, and then he was married to Miss Anna Kertley
Craighead of Missouri, after which the young couple continued to farm there for
a couple of years.
In
1910, unable longer to repel the alluring attractions of California, Mr. Moore
came out to the Coast and located at the city of Richmond; and there he engaged
in contract-hauling and other heavy work, which he continued until September 1,
1916, when he bought an auto-truck. In
December of that same year he came to Sacramento,
and he has done the hauling for the excavations at the new Capitol buildings
and the new Senator Hotel; and he also gave several months to the California
Packing Company’s job. His business has
grown, and he keeps five trucks busy all the time. Mr. Moore is never so busy, however, that he
cannot give some time to a first-class game of baseball; and he is fond of
outdoor life generally. His one son,
Thomas Duff, shares these hobbies and tastes.
Mr. Moore favors the principles of the Democratic party.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 900. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.