David Richard Moore (August 28, 1856 – May 16, 1926 Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
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, Canada. He represented York County in the

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from 1886 to 1890 as a

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member. He was born in

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, the son of

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immigrants, and came to

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with his parents. He studied at Harvard Medical College and the

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. He married Susannah Samson and then married Dora McBean after his first wife died in 1883. Moore was

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for the county and a surgeon in the militia.

References

* 1856 births 1926 deaths University of Vermont alumni Harvard Medical School alumni New Brunswick Liberal Association MLAs Canadian coroners 19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick {{LiberalAssociation-NewBrunswick-MLA-stub