Elbridge Willis Moore (June 5, 1857 – June 10, 1938) was an American painter, photographer, and gallery owner. Moore was born in

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. He was the younger brother of Otis Merrill Moore, proprietor of the ''Hoquiam Record'' and ''Daily Washingtonian''. He came to Hoquiam,

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in early 1918. He worked at

Frank G. Abell Franklin George Abell Jr. (September 20, 1844 – July 20, 1910) was an American photographer active in the western United States in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. Abell was born in Roscoe, Illinois in 1844, to Franklin Abell, Sr. a fa ...

's photography firm before eventually taking it over when Abell moved on. The

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has his photograph of Susan Whalley Allison in their collection. He was also a captain. In 1897, Moore was contracted to paint a portrait of Oregon governor

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to hang in the

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in Salem. He was also contracted to paint portraits of governors Frank W. Benson and

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, as well as former governor Ben W. Olcott. In addition to these portraits, he also painted a portrait of Samuel Benn, a pioneer of

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, and made a posthumous painting of Seattle newspaper editor Col.

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. Also a photographer, Moore took a photograph of

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before eventually taking over his photographic studio. He died in

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.''California, U.S., Death Index, 1905–1939''

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