Biography of 	Moore, Pierre Albert M. D., St. Landry, then Orleans Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by 	Mike Miller September 2000

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Pierre Albert Moore, M. D.  A physician and surgeon who has practiced in New Orleans for 
thirty years, Doctor Moore is related to a number of the most prominent and historic families
of Louisiana.  His individual career in its service and attainments has measured up to a most 
honorable tradition of the older generations of his family.

Doctor Moore was born at Opelousas, Louisiana, in 1870, son of Judge Joseph M. and Annette 
(Wartelle) Moore.  His mother was of French ancestry, her father having been a soldier under
the great Napoleon in the Italian and Russian campaigns.  The Moores are an old and prominent 
family of W. Virginia.  Doctor Moore's great-grandfather was related to the Randolphs, 
Harrisons, Lewises, Henshaws and others, his home place, Moorefield, being named for the 
family.  He left Virginia about the beginning of the nineteenth century, first settling in 
Kentucky, where the grandfather of Doctor Moore was born.  During the latter's early childhood 
the family removed to Louisiana.  Doctor Moore's grand father became owner of a rich plantation 
that now includes the site of Morgan City.  The Moores have always been people of substance and
property.  Through intermarriage the family is related to the Kings, Overtons, Wartelles and 
other names well known in Louisiana.  Judge King was on the supreme bench of the state and 
another of that family was minister to Spain.

Judge Joseph M. Moore, father of Doctor Moore, reached many of the positions and honors 
respecting brilliant ability in the law and personal character.  He was a native of Opelousas, 
served as a judge of the Court of Appeals, and was democratic candidate for Congress in 
reconstruction days, being counted out by the returning hoard.  He also served in the State 
Legislature and as a young man was in charge of the state land office for a time.  Those who 
knew him had a high opinion of his wisdom, integrity and exalted character.

Doctor Moore grew up at Opelousas, and is a graduate of the Louisiana State University.  
For two years he was an instructor in time Kentucky Military Institute and then entered 
Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, graduating from that old and honored school of 
medicine in 1895.  Since that year he has been busy with a general practice of medicine in
New Orleans.  His offices are in the Godchaux Building.  He is a member of the Orleans Parish.
Louisiana State anti American Medical Associations.  Doctor Moore married Miss Louise Gibbons,
of St. Louis.  They have a son, Pierre Albert Moore, Jr., a young man who has given promise of 
living up to the best traditions if his family.  He is now attending preparatory school at 
Asheville, North Carolina. getting ready for his advance education in the University of 
Virginia.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 24-25, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.