An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., The
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL. 1893

J.E. MOORE, another one of the representative citizens of Utsaladdy, Island
county, Washington, was born June 10, 1860, in Machias, Washington county,
Maine. His father, J.E. Moore, Sr., was born in 1820 and died in 1889. His
mother, whose maiden name was Ellen Campbell, was born in 1833 and is still
living. In their family were ten children, two of whom are deceased, and the
others, with the exception of J.E. Moore and Mrs. J.M. Hart, reside in the East.
At an early age the subject of our sketch had aspirations for a sea life, and
when he was fourteen years old he embarked on the schooner N. Jones, and after a
voyage in it went to sea in the Anita. For seven years he followed the sea in
various vessels, and has visited nearly all the important ports of the world;
made five trips to Europe. At the age of twenty-one he retired from the sea,
having risen to the rank of first mate, and started West via the Union Pacific
Railroad. From San Francisco he came north to Puget Sound, and at Port Shelton,
on the mainland just opposite Camano island, he at once engaged in the logging
business. Soon afterward he secured employment of the Puget Mill Company, of
Utsaladdy, and for five years was log inspector and had charge of their log
booms or rafts. Resigning his position with this company, he on May 17, 1880,
organized and was elected president of the Chinook Boom Company, of Utsaladdy,
and is still acting as president of the company. He also organized the Pacific
Boom Company, in which he is the principal stockholder. He is captain of the tug
Alki, of which he is half owner. Since coming to Washington Mr. Moore has
invested largely in real estate. His residence is in Utsaladdy, and he owns
several farms; 220 acres on Camano island, a few miles from Utsaladdy; 320 acres
in Skagit county; and 160 acres in Snohomish county. He also owns property in
Seattle, and has five gold claims in Okanogan county. Mr. Moore was married June
28, 1887, to Nellie Rowell, who was born in Holden, Maine, October 20, 1860, and
who came West with her parents in 1886, locating in Seattle. She is a daughter
of R.F. and Anna (Jackson) Rowell. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have one child, Frances
Winnifred. Ralph Edwin and Maud Eleanor are deceased. Of the following fraternal
organizations Mr. Moore is a prominent member: Washington Lodge, No. 16, K. of
P., Utsaladdy; Uniform Rank, No. 18, K. of P., Seattle; Camano Lodge, No. 19, F.
& A. M., Utsaladdy; Glenwood Lodge, No. 17, I.O.O.F., Coupeville; and Puget
Sound Harbor of Masters and Pilots, No. 16.

The subject of the foregoing sketch has a brother in Stanwood, named H.B. Moore.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in January 2004 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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