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James A. Moore

Male 1894 - 1959  (64 years)


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  • Name James A. Moore 
    Born 12 Jul 1894  Yonkers, Westchester Co, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 10 Jun 1959 
    Person ID I58346  A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
    Last Modified 11 Apr 2011 

    Father Patrick Moore,   b. Abt 1864, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Catherine Hoar,   b. Abt 1864, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F22597  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Obituary with photo:
      Yonkers NY Herald Statesman 1959 Grayscale - 4154.pdf http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2010/Yonkers%20NY%20Herald%20Statesman/Yonkers%20NY%20Herald%20Statesman%201959%20Grayscale/Yonkers%20NY%20Herald%20Statesman%201959%20Grayscale%20-%204154.pdf
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      James A. Moore,
      Track Official
      40 Years Dies
      James A. Moore, sixty-five, former
      Westchester County commissioner
      for the Metropolitan,-Assn.
      of the Amateur Athletic Union,
      died yesterday while on his way
      to work as an inspector for the
      Dept. of Public Works Bureau of
      Engineering.
      Police were summoned by passersby
      who found the body at the
      corner of Parkview Ave. and Colonial
      Parkwav North. A resident
      at the YMCA at 17 Riverdale Ave.,
      Mr. Moore was the brother of the
      Rt- Rev. Msgr. Joseph P. Moore,
      Catholic chaplain at the U. S. Military
      Academy at West Point.
      An official at track meets for
      more than 40 years, he was a former
      Democratic district leader in
      the 8th Ward. Mr. Moore a former
      track coach at the Y.M. and
      a track star and baseball and bas
      ketball player with the old Dion
      Athletic Club in his youth, .iad
      served as the Pacoy Club's dele
      gate to the Board of Governors of
      the Metropolitan AAU.
      He had been instrumental in
      bringing the Junior Met cross
      county championships to Tibbetts
      Brook Park in 1949. He had played
      with St- Denis' parish athletic
      teams as a youngster.
      A Navy veteran of World War I,
      he served aboard the receiving
      ship USS Granite Statee at N e w
      York. He had worked several
      years for the city water bureau
      and during World War II was employed
      in Civil Service -with U. S.
      Air Force engineering installations
      at Goose Bay, Labrador.
      Son of the late Patrick and Catherine
      Hoar Moore, he was born in
      Yonkers July 12, 1894.
      Besides Msgr. Moore, he loaves
      a sister and another brother- Mrs.
      Charles J. Schmitt of Chicago and
      Thomas F- Moore of Yonkers.