ALBERT MOORE, Jersey City Heights, New Jersey
During the recent war with Spain we have heard much in praise of the "men behind the guns;" so much, indeed, that we are likely to forget that there were "men behind the guns" in the late civil war, unless the matter is called to our attention. Albert Moore, now one of the Erie's competent engineers, does not impress one as a man who would calmly shoot a cannon ball through the side of a ship, but he has changed greatly since the days of '64 and '65, when he was fighting on the Marblehead under Admiral Farragut for the preservation of the Union.

Mr. Moore was born in Newark, New Jersey, March 15, 1844, and fitted himself for the active duties of life by acquiring a good common school education. On September 15, 1865, after leaving the marine service, he was employed by the Erie as fireman, serving in that capacity until 1871, when he was regularly promoted to engineer, although he had been running extra for a year previous to this. He ran freight between Port Jervis and Jersey City and Newburgh for several years and then was assigned to a switch engine, which he is running at the present time. He is regarded as a highly efficient engineer, with not an accident to mar his long record of thirty-five years with the Erie.

In 1866 he was married to Miss Mary F. Day, daughter of Christian Day, an iron manufacturer and retail dealer. They have four children living and one dead: Nettie is the wife of Albert Scott; Gertrude, a prepossessing and clever young lady, lives at home, as do George and Emma. Mr. Moore is a member of Van Houten Post No. 3, G.A.R., while his wife belongs to the Garfield Circle, Auxiliary to the G.A.R., and to the Methodist Church, which is attended also by the rest of this charming and happy family.


Excerpted from: "American Locomotive Engineers, Erie Railway Edition," H.R. Romans Editor; Crawford-Adsit Company Publishers, Chicago, IL 1899.