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Frank Moore
b. 1843
A longtime St. Paul newspaperman, he turned his firsthand memories of frontier-era Minnesota into a lively record of the city’s early days. His writing brings together newsroom stories, local history, and the feel of a fast-changing young community.
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About the author
Born in 1843, Frank Moore moved from Pennsylvania to Minnesota when he was about fifteen years old. According to the Library of Congress record for Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul, he soon went to work for The Minnesotian, a newspaper run by his brother George W. Moore, and later became superintendent of the composing room.
Moore spent more than forty years in newspaper work in St. Paul, and by 1908 he had marked fifty years with the paper that became the Pioneer Press. That long career gave him an unusually close view of everyday life in early Minnesota, from the late 1850s through the Civil War era.
He is best remembered for Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul, a memoir-like historical account that preserves anecdotes, personalities, and working life from the city’s early newspaper scene. A reliable portrait image was not clearly available from the sources I found, so none is included here.