Nathaniel Moore
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Nathaniel Ford Moore III (born January 31, 1884 in Chicago , Illinois , † January 9, 1910 there ) was an American golfer .
biography
Nathaniel Moore played golf at the Lake Geneva Country Club . At the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis , he was Olympic champion with the Western Golf Association in team competition . In the individual, however, he was eliminated in the round of 16 against Chandler Egan .
Moore later moved to California and played in a few tournaments.
He came from a wealthy family and inherited a fortune from his father, James Hobart Moore , president of the Rock Island Railroad. However, Moore was wasteful with the money. He later died in Levee , a red light district of Chicago . The cause was later to be traced back to drugs.
His grandfather was Nathaniel Fish Moore , who was President of Columbia University in the 1840s .
Web links
- Nathaniel Moore in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Moore, Nathaniel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moore, Nathaniel Ford (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American golfer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1910 |
| Place of death | Chicago , Illinois |