Paul Moore Sr.

Paul Moore (1886 - 1959) was a son of William Henry "Judge" Moore and the father of the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore. He was a member of the Yale Class of 1908, where he was a member of Wolf's Head Society, and earned a law degree, 1911, from New York University. He started his career in the law office of the Rock Island Railroad in Chicago after Yale. He enrolled at Northwestern University School of Law but returned to New York and completed law studies at NYU. During this period he married and was a director of the Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Company.

Moore married Fanny Mann Hanna, a daughter of Leonard C. Hanna and niece to Marcus Hanna, on October 30, 1909, in Cleveland, OH. Mrs. Moore was a member of the Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood of the American Birth Control League.She was also the first female director of the Episcopal Church Foundation.Paul Moore, Jr. would go on to be a leader in the church as the 13th Episcopal Bishop of the New York Diocese. He was a noted liberal advocate during and after the Civil Rights era in the United States of America. The Hannas were industrialists who ran M.A. Hanna Company

Mark Hanna is credited with the election of William McKinley over William Jennings Bryan for the United States presidency in 1896. Hanna introduced many aspects to contemporary presidential political campaigning. He raised a record amount of money for the Republican candidate, and hired several layers of management to aid the campaign. However, the election is more famous for Bryan's Cross of Gold speech.

Moore consolidated the gains made by his father, "Judge" Moore, during the corporate merger or "Great Merger Movement" at the turn of the 20th century.. He reorganized Seversky Aircraft to Republic Aviation in 1939, and sat on the boards of several enterprises, including United States Steel, National Biscuit Company, Bankers Trust, the American Can Company, and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad.