Contra Costa-Solano-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Moore, John S. 1828 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOHN S. MOORE.—Born in Waterloo, Monroe county, Illinois, April 15, 1828, and
there resided on a farm until his coming to California. In March, 1849, he, in
company with a few others, left his birthplace to cross the plains and seek his
fortune in the gold fields of the Pacific Coast. After a rather pleasant trip of
six months, he arrived in Marysville, when he immediately proceeded to the
mines, and embarked in mining for a few months; then he came to Benicia,, where
he spent the Winter, and in the following Spring returned to the mines, where he
remained until the Winter of 1852, when he returned to Illinois via Panama. In
the Spring of 1853, Mr. Moore again started with ox-teams to cross the plains,
and on his second arrival in this State located at Centerville, Alameda county,
engaged in farming, and there remained until 1860. He then came to Contra Costa
county and farmed three years on the Harlan ranch. The next seven years were
spent in the mines of Idaho, when he returned to Alameda county and to
Pleasanton, where he ran a livery stable for three years, then returned to San
Francisco. After three years passed in San Francisco, he again returned to this
county and engaged in hotel keeping, as proprietor of the Eagle Hotel at Pacheco
for three years. Our subject again moved to San Francisco, and thence to
Oakland, where he resided until October, 1881, when he purchased his present
property, the well-known Lafayette Hotel, and a more genial landlord is not to
be found in Contra Costa county. Mr. Moore was united in marriage, in
Sacramento, January 31,1855, to Miss Alvarado T. Pugh. By this union they have
four living children; their names are: Horace E., born in Centerville, August 1,
1856; Ida Z. (now Mrs. Miller,) born in Centerville, February 1, 1858; Flora R.
(now Mrs. M. Shreve,) born in Sacramento, August 5, 1861, and John Milton, born
in Oakland, Christmas day, 1881.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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