Samuel John Moore (3 August 1859 – 23 April 1948) was a British-Canadian businessman, founder of Moore Corporation Limited.

Biography

Samuel J. Moore was born in

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, England on August 3, 1859, and came with his family to

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while still young. When he was 12, he found work at the ''

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'' as a printer's assistant, later becoming local editor. He worked in

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, then returned to found '' Grip'', a

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weekly journal, with J. W. Bengough. He married Matilda Anne Lang in August 1878, and they had four children. In 1882, Moore left to found Moore Business Forms (then called Grip Printing & Publishing Company), which sold books of sales slips with flip-over

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. The company, later Moore Corporation Limited, went on to become a major supplier of business forms and printing services in North America. Other affiliated companies were formed in the

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and

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. Moore also founded the Metropolitan Bank of Canada in 1902; it was merged with

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, where Moore served as president and chairman of the board. He died in Toronto on April 23, 1948.

Charitable work

Moore played an important role in the development of the

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in Canada and was a major supporter of the Canadian

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Church being a member of Dovercourt Road Baptist Church in Toronto and Sunday school leader. He was one of the founders of Toronto Bible Training School, established in 1894 (in 1912 the name was changed to Toronto Bible College) with

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another Toronto Baptist Pastor and others. Among his YMCA activities was supporting the construction of the Dovercourt YMCA Building in Toronto.Dovercourt YMCA in Toronto
/ref> Moore Corporation Limited merged with Wallace Computer Services in 2003 to form MooreWallace, which was subsequently acquired by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company.

References

External links

Creating the World's Largest Business Form Company
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Samuel J 1859 births 1948 deaths Businesspeople from Ontario People from Northamptonshire (before 1974) British emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario