He served successively as vice-president, president, and chairman of the board of Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc., a metal products and railroad equipment supply manufacturing company, which made pressure gauges, valves and cranes, founded by his father and based in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He was an explorer and a member of expeditions to the Arctic, Hudson Bay, and Baffin Land. He was a member of the Peary Arctic expedition in 1897, which brought back the Cape York meteorite. He and Homer Davenport travelled to Arabia in 1906 and imported a large number of Arabian desert horses.
During World War I he was a major, the commanding officer in France of the Old Twelfth Company of Greenwich, which was attached to the Fifty-sixth Artillery Regiment.
He married twice. His first wife was Annette Sperry, daughter of Henry Sperry (1836-1916) of Nashville and his wife Mary Lee "Nanny" Jacobs. They married on 15 January 1907 at Nashville, Tennessee.
They had three children: [1] Elsie Annette Moore (1908-1993), who married John Prentice Kellogg, Rene Carrillo de Albornoz, and Edward Shaul; [2] Charles Arthur Moore III (1909-1989); and [3] Henry S. Moore (1912-1972).
They divorced in 1919, and Annette (Sperry) Moore subsequently married Spencer T. W. Stewart.
Charles A. Moore, Jr., married his second wife, Elizabeth Hyde (1897-1983), daughter of Seymour Jairus Hyde and his wife Elizabeth Worrall, on 5 June 1920 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
They had two children: [1] John Campbell Moore (1921-1943), who died in active service with the 853d Engineer Battalion while being transported on the H.M.T. Rohna in World War II; and [2] Bettine Moore, who married William Taliaferro Close. William and Bettine Close were the parents of actress Glenn Close.
Charles A. Moore, Jr. died of a coronary occlusion at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut on 23 August 1949.
Sources consulted:
Bulletin of Yale University, Obituary Record of Graduates of the Undergraduate Schools Deceased During the Year 1949-1950, p. 56.
The New York Times, 24 August 1949, page 25, column 3, "Charles A. Moore, Noted Sportsman"
He served successively as vice-president, president, and chairman of the board of Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc., a metal products and railroad equipment supply manufacturing company, which made pressure gauges, valves and cranes, founded by his father and based in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He was an explorer and a member of expeditions to the Arctic, Hudson Bay, and Baffin Land. He was a member of the Peary Arctic expedition in 1897, which brought back the Cape York meteorite. He and Homer Davenport travelled to Arabia in 1906 and imported a large number of Arabian desert horses.
During World War I he was a major, the commanding officer in France of the Old Twelfth Company of Greenwich, which was attached to the Fifty-sixth Artillery Regiment.
He married twice. His first wife was Annette Sperry, daughter of Henry Sperry (1836-1916) of Nashville and his wife Mary Lee "Nanny" Jacobs. They married on 15 January 1907 at Nashville, Tennessee.
They had three children: [1] Elsie Annette Moore (1908-1993), who married John Prentice Kellogg, Rene Carrillo de Albornoz, and Edward Shaul; [2] Charles Arthur Moore III (1909-1989); and [3] Henry S. Moore (1912-1972).
They divorced in 1919, and Annette (Sperry) Moore subsequently married Spencer T. W. Stewart.
Charles A. Moore, Jr., married his second wife, Elizabeth Hyde (1897-1983), daughter of Seymour Jairus Hyde and his wife Elizabeth Worrall, on 5 June 1920 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
They had two children: [1] John Campbell Moore (1921-1943), who died in active service with the 853d Engineer Battalion while being transported on the H.M.T. Rohna in World War II; and [2] Bettine Moore, who married William Taliaferro Close. William and Bettine Close were the parents of actress Glenn Close.
Charles A. Moore, Jr. died of a coronary occlusion at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut on 23 August 1949.
Sources consulted:
Bulletin of Yale University, Obituary Record of Graduates of the Undergraduate Schools Deceased During the Year 1949-1950, p. 56.
The New York Times, 24 August 1949, page 25, column 3, "Charles A. Moore, Noted Sportsman"
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