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Prominent among the progressive, influential and highly-respected ranchers who have helped to make Riverside Colony what it is, is George P. Moran, a native of San Francisco, where he was born in 1874. Growing up in that city, he attended the public schools there, and when he pushed out into the world, he became a clerk in the San Francisco Post Office. Later, he was engaged in the grocery business, so that his combined experience in the bay metropolis was of such a nature as to prepare him well for his later ventures.

In 1912 Mr. Moran removed to Fresno County, and here he embarked in ranching. He took charge of a farm, settled at an early date by M. E. Stanton and still the property of Mrs. Moran, who was Miss Elizabeth Stanton before her marriage. Mr. Stanton had long been a pioneer at Visalia, being in the boot and shoe business in Tulare County, but in 1885 he removed to Fresno County. He married Miss Margaret McCarty, and by her had two children — Elizabeth, already referred to, and Richard Stanton. The Moran ranch consists of sixty acres in the Riverside Colony and a quarter section in the River Bend Colony, all of which is set out to vines and fruit trees. Mr. Stanton died in December, 1902, his devoted wife having died in August of the same year. He was mourned as a man of that sterling character which always makes for the best in citizenship.

Mr. Moran and Miss Stanton were united in matrimony in 1907, and their union has been blessed with the birth of three children— George, Joyce and Ruth. Mrs. Moran is an attractive hostess and Mr. Moran is an exceedingly painstaking and accurate rancher, who keeps well abreast of the times, follows only the most scientific methods, and operates in the most up-to-date manner.