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Franklin H. Moore, Jr. (IV) was born in St. Clair on December 5, 1934 to Franklin H. Moore (III)<\/a> and Alice Wolfs Moore.\u00a0 He was the oldest of four children.\u00a0 Like his father, he grew up in St. Clair and attended prep school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts where he graduated in 1953.\u00a0 He proceeded to Williams College in western Massachusetts and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) fraternity.\u00a0 He considered majoring in Engineering following the Sputnik launch, but instead opted for English.<\/p>\n

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While at Williams, Frank met Nancy Shearer who attended Skidmore College across the state line in Saratoga Springs, New York.\u00a0 His classmate was dating a Skidmore girl and needed a ride and Frank had a car.\u00a0 The classmate arranged to find him a date if he’d drive.\u00a0 The girlfriend at Skidmore found Nancy in the library and was able to introduce them.\u00a0 They were married on August 30, 1958 and lived in Ann Arbor where Frank was attending law school at the University of Michigan.\u00a0 See the letter<\/a> Frank penned to his mother, Alice, describing his new girlfriend.<\/p>\n

Frank graduated from law school in 1960.\u00a0 Frank’s father, then president of the Commercial & Savings Bank, needed help at the bank and insisted that if Frank, Jr. wanted to work there that he would need to come then.\u00a0 Frank turned down a better offer to work as an attorney in Detroit and settled for the $5,000 per year salary at the bank.<\/p>\n

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Frank Moore (IV) with wife, Nancy, son Frank (V) and his wife, Jennifer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In their move to St. Clair, Frank and Nancy initially lived in the lower level of the new home Frank’s parents had built at 722 North Riverside but soon found an apartment above the bakery on the St. Clair River.\u00a0 Their first son, Franklin Shearer Moore (V), aka Spike, was born in October.\u00a0 One of his first words was boat as he enjoyed watching the freighters on the river.<\/p>\n

In July, 1962 they moved into their first house on Sixth Street in St. Clair just in time for the birth of their second child, Elizabeth (Beth).\u00a0 Their third child, Jennifer Ann, was born in September, 1964 and their fourth, Walter English, was born in April, 1967.\u00a0 A woman that lived across the street, Ruth Nelson, was the regular babysitter for the family and became a beloved third grandmother to the kids.<\/p>\n

Franklin H. Moore, Sr. developed some land he had purchased into a subdivision on the north side of the city and gave a beautiful corner lot to Frank Jr.\u00a0 The family built a home there in 1968 and lived there until 2017.\u00a0 The woods behind the home were never developed and Frank loved feeding the birds.\u00a0 He continued his vegetable garden at the new house, a hobby he enjoyed into his late ’70’s, often while listening to Tigers games broadcast by Ernie Harwell.<\/p>\n

Frank was involved in many civic organizations over the years.\u00a0 One of his first projects was with the Jaycees, who took on the relocation of the public library during St. Clair’s “urban renewal” in the late 1960’s.\u00a0 Frank worked with the architect to design the new building that still stands on Second Street and he became Chairman of the library board of directors, a position he held and enjoyed for decades.<\/p>\n

Frank’s civic contributions are too numerous to count.\u00a0 He often was asked to serve as the chairman of the board of organizations and some of these included:<\/p>\n