Zenas Ferry Moody (May 27, 1832 – March 14, 1917) was the seventh Governor of Oregon from 1882 to 1887.
[2] The family immigrated to Oregon Territory in 1851, traveling the Isthmus of Panama route.
Moody was a surveyor and store keeper in Brownsville, Oregon until moving to Illinois in 1856.
[2] At The Dalles he set up a general store and was responsible for surveying the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
[2] They would have five children, including Malcolm A. Moody, who would serve in the United States Congress, and Ralph E. Moody, who would serve in the Oregon House of Representatives and as assistant attorney general of Oregon.