PAUL MILLER MOORE

Founder of the P M Moore Company came to Aliquippa, then known as Woodlawn, from New Concord Ohio in about 1906. He was the first labor foreman in the construction of J & L Steel and was responsible for all the mill works from its beginning.

P M Moore was a great humanitarian and one of Aliquippa's best known citizens. In 1912 he started the P M Moore Company and constructed many of the neighborhood "plans" for the steel workers. These homes of excellent quality were being completed at a rate of one house per day. The houses sold for just over $2000 and all contained a living room, dining room and kitchen downstairs, with three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. Indoor plumbing, taken for granted today, was new to this area at the time.

He was one of the organizers of the Woodlawn Trust Company and served as President until it merged with Mellon National Bank and Trust. He was one of the organizers of the Woodlawn Building and Loan and served as Director.

He was a member of the Woodlawn Presbyterian Church and for twenty five years, President of the Board of Trustees. He helped found the Aliquippa Rotary Club, the Aliquippa Concert Band and was one of the organizers of the Boy Scouting movement and local chairman. In 1957 was presented the "Man of the Year" award by the citizens of Aliquippa.

Paul Moore belonged to the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the American Revolution, Anthony Wayne Chapter and was a Warrant Officer of the Woodlawn Masonic Lodge. In those days the Masons in Woodlawn met loosely as an organization known as the Woodlawn Fraternity Club. After a petition to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania it was granted a Charter on March 15, 1913 and was constituted as Woodlawn Lodge No. 672. P M Moore served as the second Master of the Lodge in 1914 and in 1962 paid off the lodge mortgage debt.

Being a member of a Masonic Lodge and professing a belief in Christianity, Paul Miller Moore was also a member and Past Commander of the Knights Templar, Beaver Valley Commandery No. 84. He later rose to the esteemed position of Grand Commander of Pennsylvania in 1939 and then served as the Grand Master of the Grand Encampment of the United States of America from 1961 to 1963. Today there are 145,000 Knights Templar in the United States, Mexico, Germany and Italy.

PAUL MILLER MOORE
He died on Good Friday Evening while in Washington to attend the Knights Templar Easter Sunrise services at Arlington Cemetery.
Great humanitarian, outstanding citizen and generous Philanthropist.