About Willis L. Moore
Lived 1856 – 1927 (aged 70–71). Willis L. Moore was an American meteorologist.
Willis Luther Moore (January 18, 1856 – December 18, 1927) was an American meteorologist, author, and educator. He was chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, 1895–1913, and president of the National Geographic Society, 1905–1910.
Biography Moore was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on January 18, 1856, the son of Luther T. Moore and Lucy E. Babcock. During his youth the family lived on a farm in the Susquehanna Valley in New York. His father served in Grant's army during the American Civil War, where the eight-year-old Moore joined him at City Point, selling newspapers to the Union troops. Moore received his early education in Binghamton, New York public schools.
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American meteorologist (1856–1927)
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Willis L. Moore was born in 1856 in Scranton.
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Willis L. Moore died in 1927 in Pasadena.
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Willis L. Moore was a meteorologist.
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