Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader Autobiography & Reminiscence of Lewis William Moore, San Francisco, 1904. The Society of California Pioneers Lewis William Moore was born in England in 1830. At age 14 he began working on ships and traveled to various locations around the world. In 1849, Mr. Moore departed Boston on board the brig "Arcadia" destined for California. He arrived in San Francisco on October 29, 1849 and immediately went to work. After three months he went to work in the mines at Angel's Camp, where he stayed for another three months. He then relocated to Santa Clara County and then Santa Cruz County. In 1859 Mr. Moore moved to New York State and remained there for ten years at which point he returned to California. He was engaged in the tanning business. Mr. Moore and his son, Charles, operated the firm of Chas. C. Moore & Co. Engineers, in San Francisco Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 170-173, Vol. 7. This is a typed transcript, bound into a volume, of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. This reminiscence details the life of L.W. Moore, providing details regarding his life before arrival in California and after. The author names all his fellow passengers on board the ship taken to California. The topics discussed in this reminiscence are: employment history, places of residence, social club memberships, and family history. Some of the subject's travels before settling in California are also described. The time period represented by this reminiscence is from 1844 to 1895.
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