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William Moore (1827–1897) was a city and county surveyor in Los Angeles County, California, and a member of the Los Angeles Common Council, the city's governing body, in the 19th Century. ==Personal== Moore was born April 3, 1827, in Augusta, Maine, where his families were farmers and linen weavers. He learned the carriage-making trade, and by age 21 was making carriages, buggies and sleighs in Lewiston Falls, Maine.〔("Captain William Moore," Los Angeles Department of Public Works )〕 On July 4, 1852, he sailed from New York for California and spent eighteen month in the mining and lumber regions near Napa. He walked from Northern California to Los Angeles, arriving on his 27th birthday in 1854.〔 He was married to Mary E. and had a son, Hansen, who was born about 1880 and also became a surveyor, and a daughter, Florence (later Kreider).〔("Hansen Moore, 66, Succumbs," ''Los Angeles Times,'' August 31, 1946, page 8 )〕 He was known as "A man of wit and humor, with quaint expressions, . . . both a scholar and linguist who could converse with the old timers of the City in Spanish or in many other tongues."〔 Moore was a bilingual English and Spanish speaker and practiced his language skills by writing some of his diary entries in Spanish. His language skills may have helped him secure work surveying land for some of Southern California’s wealthy Mexican-American families.〔(Jessica M. Kim, "Finding Aid for Papers of William Moore, 1857–1891 )〕 At the beginning of the Civil War, Moore was appointed Captain of a company of California infantry, and later organized and drilled a military unit which became a home guard unit. Both Captain and Mrs. Moore were prominent factors in the early social life of Los Angeles. "Captain Willie's Company" of home guards served as, a famous old time social and recreational organization in the early days.〔 He died January 11, 1897.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Moore (surveyor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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