Banking On The Moores

John K. Moore, the man from Detroit who would become one of Vero Beach’s most influential bankers, might never have become a banker at all if his father hadn’t suffered a severe attack of island fever.

John’s father was another John – John E. Moore – and for  many years he ran a firm in Detroit that made repair tools for General Motors. Since 1938, when some friends told him about a little resort town called Vero Beach, he had wintered here from November to April.  John K. was nine when the family first came to town and he recalls that few people lived on the barrier island in those days: “Mainly it was used by visitors and a few pioneer families.”

Read the entire article in the Summer 1999 issue