Born: February 6, 1895, in Hackensack, New Jersey, a son of Arthur Duncan Moir and Laura Merriam Russell note - SSDI states born February 1, 1893
Died: June 15, 1968 in Helena, Lewis and Clark, Montana
Married: Pearl Martin on February 27, 1917 in Big Timber, Sweet Grass, Montana, divorced and on February 11, 1944 married divorcee Geraldine M. Hughes born in South Dakota
Children: Arthur D. Moir 3rd born March 23, 1918 , mother Jacqueline Perle Martin born in Dawson, Minnisota
Arthur Duncan Moir, Jr. came to Saranac Lake around age five, when the family relocated for the health of his sister Jean. At the time of his mother's death in about 1936, he was superintendent of the forestry service in the state of Washington. He is mentioned in Young Men and Fire, by Norman Maclean (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) as supervisor of the Helena (Montana) National Forest in August of 1949, the time of the Mann Gulch fire.
