[p. 1009] president of the Penn Stone Company, and recently proprietor of the New Leslie, one of New Castle's leading hotels, was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1867, and is a son of the late John G. Moore and a grandson of William Moore.
William Moore came to Lawrence County from Armstrong County and settled in the vicinity of the present city of New Castle. He was a man of progressive ideas and he was quick to adopt newer methods than his neighbors, both in the conduct of his business and in his mode of living. When he purchased a steel spring buggy at Cincinnati and drove it to Lawrence County it was considered a remarkable vehicle, this being the first one ever brought into the county.
W. S. Moore spent his boyhood on his father's farm and attended the country schools. He learned the bakery business and worked at this for several years at New Castle and then went to Mercer County, where he engaged for five years in the stone business. After he returned to New Castle he opened a stone quarry at East Brook, and in the following year he associated himself with Hugh Wick, of Youngstown. They organized the Penn Stone Company, of which Mr. Moore is president, and he has other business interests of importance. On April 1, 1908, Mr. Moore took charge of the New Leslie hotel, an elegantly equipped hostelry conducted according to thoroughly modern ideas. He has recently sold his interest in this property to Charles B. Deshon, Jr., of Pittsburg.
In 1889 Mr. Moore was married to Miss Edna Raney, of New Castle, and they have two children—Cowden and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Moore attend the Methodist Episcopal Church.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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