Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 3.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 267.

E. W. ANDERSON

     The extent of every man's achievement is fixed by his own powers. E. W.
Anderson, who possesses the requisite ability and the equally necessary
qualities of industry and perseverance, has steadily progressed and is now one
of the owners and officers of the Eugene Packing Company, Inc. He was born at
Eagle River, Wisconsin, in 1891. His father, E. S. Anderson, passed away in 1902
and is survived by the mother, Mrs. Mary J. (Alien) Anderson, who resides in
Eugene.
     E. W. Anderson was educated in the public schools of his native state and
when a youth of seventeen secured a position in the office of a sash and door
company, with which he was connected for four years. In 1912 he went to the
state of Washington in company with his mother and for two years they lived on a
ranch near Quincy, in Grant county. He afterward cultivated land in another
section of that state and from 1916 until 1918 engaged in farming on the
McKenzie river in Lane county, Oregon. He has since been identified with the
Eugene Packing Company, Inc., of which he is now secretary and treasurer, while
James M. Moore fills the office of president. Their establishment was opened
about 1900 at its present location and was known as the Wing Market. In January,
1918, Messrs. Moore and Anderson purchased the business, which was operated
under the original style until 1922, when it was incorporated and the name of
the Eugene Packing Company was then adopted. This was first a retail market,
dealing in meat and groceries, but the latter department was afterward
discontinued and other lines were added. The firm buys poultry, cattle, sheep
and hogs, which are fattened on a fifty-acre tract known as Delreck Gardens. The
company has a large yard and slaughter-house at Coburg and cures ham and bacon,
also making sausage and rendering lard. Steady work is furnished to about six
men, and twenty cattle, twenty-five hogs, six lambs and fifteen calves are
normally handled each week. The plant is efficiently operated and the firm label
is a guarantee of high quality in meat products. Mr. Anderson handles the inside
work and Mr. Moore attends to the slaughtering and outside business. They have
developed one of the most important packing industries in western Oregon and
display keen sagacity and marked executive force in the management of their
affairs.
     In 1914 Mr. Anderson married Miss Lora Marie Moore, a native of Idaho and a
daughter of James M. and Terressia A. (Nunn) Moore. Mr. and Mrs., Anderson have
become the parents of three children: James Edmond, who was born in the state of
Washington in 1915; Marie Charlotte, who was born in Lane county in 1917; and
Robert Eugene, who was born in this county in 1919. Mr. Anderson is identified
with the Chamber of Commerce and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is
an enterprising young business man, well poised and equal to every emergency,
and his personality is one that inspires respect and confidence.
     James M. Moore was born in Tennessee in 1861 and his parents, Henderson and
Martha (Jones) Moore, were born in the eastern part of that state, but both
passed away on a farm in Missouri. James M, Moore attended the public schools of
his native state and remained at home until he reached the age of eighteen. He
then journeyed to Missouri with a horse and wagon and for a few years worked in
a grist mill in Webster county, after which he engaged in farming and stock
raising in Texas. Mr. Moore entered a homestead but did not prove up on his
claim. He later returned to Tennessee and in 1885 went to the state of
Washington, where he engaged in ranching near Col fax for a year and then spent
the following winter in Tennessee. In 1887 he opened a feed store in Baker,
Oregon, and a year later went to Tekoa, Washington. He was in Whitman county for
four years and while a resident of Marshal, Washington, was identified with
various lines of activity. His adventurous spirit next took him to Cottonwood,
Idaho, and for eight years he maintained his home in that town, operating a
livery stable and a hotel and also handling live stock. Leaving Cottonwood in
1900, Mr. Moore located in Seattle, Washington, and embarked in business. He
formed the firm of Moore & Hall Brothers, which took contracts for street
grading and paving. He continued the business until 1903 but during the summer
of 1900 was in Nome, Alaska. He afterward returned to that country and was
superintendent of construction for the Alaska Central Railroad Company. He
filled the position until 1907 and then resumed his contracting work in Seattle.
He aided in constructing the line of the Chicago & Milwaukee Railroad and
remained in business in Seattle until 1909. He spent a year in Port Orchard,
Washington, building a hotel, docks, etc., and in 1912 moved to Quincy, that
state. He followed the occupation of dry farming for about three years and on
the expiration of that period reentered the contracting business at Port
Orchard. A few months later he traded his interests at Port Orchard for land on
the McKenzie river, the tract, which comprised eleven hundred acres, being known
as the Dearborn ranch. Mr. Moore remained on the place from August, 1915, until
January, 1916, and has since been a resident of Eugene, where he is wisely and
successfully administering- the affairs of the Eugene Packing Company and ranks
with the foremost business men of the city.
     In 1879 Mr. Moore married Miss Terressia A. Nunn, who was born in eastern
Tennessee. They were schoolmates during their childhood and Mrs. Moore's
parents, J. H. and Nancy Elizabeth (Cardwell) Nunn, were also natives of
Tennessee. During the Civil war Mr. Nunn was one of the gallant defenders of the
northern cause and E. S, Anderson was also a strong Union man but not a soldier.
To Mr. and Mrs. Moore were born four children: Oscar H., who was born in
Missouri and lived only four months; Leo, a native of Tennessee, who died during
the influenza epidemic of 1918; Lottie V., also in Tennessee and now Mrs. Earl
Kelley, of Eugene; and Lora, a native of Idaho, now the wife of E. W. Anderson,
the subject of this sketch. Mr. Moore is one of the influential members of the
Chamber of Commerce and conforms his life to the teachings of the Methodist
church.

     
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