Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Moores, Chester A. February 10, 1889 - 
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     CHESTER A. MOORES, who, as a member of the firm of Moores-Beaver Company, 
is actively engaged in the real estate business in Portland, is the scion of 
honored ancestry, members of his family having been prominent in the political 
history of this state from territorial days. Mr. Moores was born in Salem, 
Oregon, on the 10th of February, 1889, and is a son of Charles B. and Sarah E. 
(Chamberlin) Moores, the former having been born in Pike county, Missouri, and 
the latter in Michigan. His great-grandfather, I. R. Moores, came to Oregon in 
a very early day and was actively identified with public affairs, having been 
a member of the constitutional convention and a signer of the constitution of 
Oregon. The grandfather, John H. Moores, brought his family across the plains 
in 1852 and became one of the early merchants of Salem. His son, Charles B. 
Moores, who was three years old on his arrival in this state, was here reared 
and educated, studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced his 
profession. He served as private secretary to Governor Moody and became a 
member of the state legislature, serving as speaker of the house in 1895. He 
was appointed register of the United States land office at Oregon City, 
serving in that capacity for several years, and was for many years engaged in 
the lumber business at Salem, under the name of the Capital Lumbering Company. 
He was for several years chairman of the republican state central committee 
and has been a trustee of Willamette University for nearly fifty years. He 
served ten years as commissioner of public docks of the city of Portland and 
took an active interest in affairs affecting the welfare and prosperity of his 
community and state. He was and still is a student of state and local history 
and is a past president of the Oregon Pioneer Association. He is now retired 
from active business pursuits and is held in high esteem by all who know him.
     Chester A. Moores attended the public schools of Salem, graduating from 
high school, and entered the University of Oregon, where he majored in 
economics and was graduated in 1912. While in college he served as news 
correspondent for the Portland Oregonian, and later was employed for several 
years as a reporter for that paper in Portland. He studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1917, but has never practiced that profession. He 
became private secretary to Governor Withycombe, serving for about eighteen 
months until the Governor’s death, when he returned to Portland and engaged in 
the real estate business, to which he has devoted his efforts to the present 
time, being now a member of the Moores-Beaver Company, which ranks among the 
leading real estate firms of Portland, having successfully handled many of the 
largest deals in business and commercial properties in this city.
     In 1913 Mr. Moores was united in marriage to Miss Lueen Moreland, a 
daughter of the late Judge J. C. Moreland. Mr. Moores is a stanch republican 
in his political affiliation and has shown a deep interest in public affairs. 
He is a member of the Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Phi and Sigma Delta Chi college 
fraternities, the Multnomah Club, the Multnomah Golf Club, the Chamber of 
Commerce and the Portland Realty Board, of which he is president. He is 
progressive and wide-awake in his business methods, is public spirited in his 
attitude toward matters relating to the welfare of his community and has so 
ordered his actions as to win and retain the respect and esteem of his 
fellowmen, while in social circles he is extremely popular.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Pages 305-306

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