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Born 1830
From History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881)
JAMES J. MOORE, Superintendent of the Falls Wire Manufacturing Company, Cuyahoga Falls; was born in Pittsburgh, Perm., Feb. 14, 1830, and is a son of William and Margaret Moore. About the year 1835, they moved to Cuyahoga Falls, where they lived some fifteen years, and then went to Williams Co., Ohio. James clerked in a store for a while, and then secured a position on the railroad as express and mail agent. In 1861, he entered the service of the Government, in the Paymaster's Department, and was thus employed until the close of the war. In 1870, he entered the employ of Camp, Cooke & Co., with whom he remained until the organization of the Falls Wire Company, when he became its Secretary, and, at the re-organization in 1 879, under the name of the Falls Wire Manufacturing Company, he was retained as Superintendent. h\ Moore is a genial gentleman, and spends much of his time in traveling in the interests of his firm.
As printed in History of Summit County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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