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FRED B. MOORE
A pioneer resident and a prominent
grain farmer of San Joaquin County, Fred B. Moore has been profitably engaged
in the ranching industry in the Collegeville district of San Joaquin County for
a continuous period of thirty-five years.
Many other interests have likewise taken his time and attention, and he
is spoken of throughout the county as a public-spirited, genial and upright
man. He was born at Woodbridge, one-half
mile east of the Sargent place, March 27, 1863, a son of T. S. Moore, a native
of New York who migrated to Grinnell, Iowa, in 1847, and two years later, in
1849 crossed the plains with ox teams to California. T. S. Moore was a butcher and carpenter by
trade and for several years after arriving in California he worked at his trade
at Coloma. In 1863 he removed to San
Joaquin County and farmed near Lodi; the following year, 1864, he purchased a
ranch west of Lodi where he farmed for thirteen years, then sold to J. L.
Hudson. In 1877 he removed to
Washington, then a Territory, where he engaged in farming for four years; then
returned to San Joaquin County and located at the old Five-Mile House on the
Lower Sacramento Road. His last days
were spent in Stockton, where he passed away about twenty years ago. Fred B. Moore received a fairly good
education at the Lafayette district school and was a young lad when he started
at farm work. For the past thirty-five
years he has been farming in the Mt. Carmel and Collegeville district of the
county and his perseverance and industry have been well rewarded.
The marriage of Mr. Moore occurred
in 1885, and united him with Miss Eliza E. Carey, born on the Carey Road six
miles southeast of Stockton, a daughter of the late Wilson Carey, a prominent
pioneer and grain and stock farmer of the Mt. Carmel district. Mr. Moore owns 280 acres of fine wheat land
located five miles southeast of Stockton, on which was formerly located the old
Six-Mile House on the Mariposa Road. Mr.
and Mrs. Moore have one son, Arthur W., born on the old Wilson Carey ranch near
Stockton, January 7, 1888. He received his
education in the Mt. Carmel School and since he was old enough has helped his
father with ranch work. For the past three
years he has managed the extensive grain farm.
On February 28, 1919, at Stockton, he was married to Miss Laura Cox,
born July 28, 1888, in Linden, California, a daughter of W. E. Cox, pioneer
farmer of Linden. Both father and son
believe in the most up-to-date methods of grain farming and their equipment
consists of the latest improved machinery known, which greatly facilitates
their extensive grain growing operations.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
963-964. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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