James Beach Moore

James Beach Moore (April 1, 1842, in Norwich, Canada West – August 29, 1931, in Waterford, Ontario) was a Canadian Baptist pastor.

According to James' obituary in the Waterford Star newspaper, when he was seventeen years old, he determined to enter the Gospel ministry, although he was opposed by his father who had been a Quaker in all of his training and his sympathies.

Providence directed his steps to the United States and, when the civil war broke out, he enlisted, being selected as an aide de camp to General Philip Kearny with the army of the Potomac in Virginia.

"He was ordained to the ministry and became pastor of a small Church in Whitevale, Ontario at a salary of four hundred dollars a year.

Mr. Moore [then] devoted a year to evangelistic work after which he assumed a pastorate in Tillsonburg and from 1880 onward labored there and in the nearby village of Brownsville.

"For the last twelve years or more [of his life], Moore had made his winter home at St. Petersburg, Florida, where he became permanent chaplain of the Canadian Association of St.Petersburg, comprising about 300 members, the Grand Army of the Republic which included forty Civil War veterans, and the Three Quarter Century Club, comprising over 300 members, all of whom were over 75 years of age.

Their son, William Henry Moore, a lawyer and author, was elected to the House of Commons of Canada, where he sat as a Liberal for almost 15 years, from 1930 to 1945.