Paul Moore (1886– December 19, 1959) was an American businessman and founder of Republic Aviation.[1]

Early life

Moore was born in 1886 and was the son of William Henry "Judge" Moore. He went to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire.[1]

Moore attended Yale College, graduating with the class of 1908.[1] After graduating from Yale, Moore started his career in the law office of the Rock Island Railroad in Chicago.[1] He enrolled at Northwestern University School of Law while there but returned to New York and completed law studies at New York University School of Law, earning a law degree in 1911.[1] During World War I he was a major with the United States Army Ordnance Corps in Washington.[1]

Career

Moore became a partner in the brokerage firm Taylor, Bates & Co. in New York City.[1] He was a director of the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Company.[2]

He consolidated the gains made by his father during the corporate merger or "Great Merger Movement" at the turn of the 20th century.[3] He reorganized Seversky Aircraft to form Republic Aviation in 1939 in Farmingdale, Long Island. He was a director and executive board member for Republic Aviation.[1]

He sat on the boards of several enterprises put together by his father and uncle, James Hobart Moore, including the United States Steel He also was a director of the American Can Company, Bankers Trust, the National Biscuit Company, and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.[1]

Personal life

Moore married Fanny Mann Hanna on October 30, 1909, in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a daughter of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. and niece to Mark Hanna and was a member of the Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood of the American Birth Control League.[4] She was also the first female director of the Episcopal Church Foundation.[5] They had two daughters and two sons.[1] Their son, Paul Moore Jr., would go on to be the 13th Episcopal Bishop of the New York Diocese.[1] Their son, William Moore was a banker and chairman Bankers Trust.[1]

Moore hired architect Addison Mizner to build a 14,550 square feet (1,352 m2) mansion at 1820 S. Ocean Blvd. in Palm Beach, Florida; it was completed in 1926.[6]

He was a member of the Links Club, the Morris County Golf Club, and the Myopia Hunt Club.[1]

Moore died on December 19, 1959, at his home in Convent Station, Morris Township, New Jersey.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Paul Moore, Lawyer, Dies at 74; A Founder of RepublicAviation" (PDF). The New York Times. December 20, 1959. p. 60. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
  2. ↑ History of the Class of 1908, Yale College, Vol. 2
  3. ↑ The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy, pp.254-266, Charles R. Morris, Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, LLC, New York, 2005
  4. ↑ 123 Leaders Back Birth Control Aid. The New York Times, Feb. 9, 1938,
  5. ↑ Appointed to the Board of Episcopal Foundation, The New York Times, Jan. 19, 1951
  6. ↑ Hofheinz, Darrell (January 2, 2018). "Mizner-designed estate of late A. Alfred Taubman listed at $58 million". Palm Beach Daily News. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
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