William Moore (surveyor)
[2] He was known as "A man of wit and humor, with quaint expressions, ... both a scholar and linguist who could converse with the old timers of the City in Spanish or in many other tongues.His language skills may have helped him secure work surveying land for some of Southern California's wealthy Mexican-American families."Captain Willie's Company" of home guards served as, a famous old time social and recreational organization in the early days.In the late 1860s and 1870s he did the surveying and oversaw work for the Canal and Reservoir Company, owned by banker Isaias Hellman and John G. Downey, the governor of California during the Civil War.It is known he spent about forty three years of his private and public life surveying old Spanish grants, ranchos, county and city property, and examining old and new records and boundaries.