author
Frank Moore
b. 1843
A Minnesota newspaperman with a front-row view of a growing frontier city, he left behind a lively firsthand account of early St. Paul and its rough-and-tumble newspaper world.
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About the author
Born in 1843, Frank Moore was an American newspaperman associated with early St. Paul, Minnesota. Available catalog and book records identify him as the author of Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul, a memoir-style work looking back on the city’s formative years.
According to those records, he moved to Minnesota from Pennsylvania when he was still young and went to work at The Minnesotian, a paper run by his brother, George W. Moore. He reportedly rose through a range of newspaper jobs to become superintendent of the composing room, giving him direct experience of the fast-changing press culture of the period.
His surviving reputation rests mainly on Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul, which is valued as a firsthand glimpse of frontier journalism and everyday life in early Minnesota. I couldn't confirm more detailed biographical facts from strong contemporary sources during this search, so some parts of his life remain lightly documented.