Moran Brothers Company (Seattle, Wash.)

Robert Moran, born in 1857 in New York, moved to Seattle in 1875 and was employed as a steamboat engineer in Puget Sound, British Columbia, and Alaska. Other members of the family followed Moran to Seattle, and in 1882 they opened a small machine shop on Yesler Wharf, expanding into larger quarters on Western Avenue. The Seattle fire of 1889 destroyed that factory, whereupon the firm moved to Charles Street and organized into the Moran Brothers Company. The Morans were large stockholders in the Seattle Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company, a shipyard and marine railway which adjoined the Moran Brothers foundry and machine shops. By 1891 the company had completed a well equipped dry dock, which enabled it to receive federal contracts. In 1906 the Moran Brothers Company was sold, and in 1912 it became the Seattle Construction & Dry Dock Company.

From the description of Moran Brothers Company records, 1889-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28417922

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