Parish Police Jury He had other business interests too, including the then-fledgling Kansas City Southern Railway, which acquired the Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad. In addition, he founded, owned, and operated the Commercial Building Company until 1956. He was also the vice president of both the City Savings Bank and Trust and the newly founded Commercial National Bank in Shreveport. He never forgot his roots in the lumber trade, however, and served as vice president of the Peavy-Byrnes Lumber Company, vice president of the Peavy-Moore Lumber Company, vice president of the Peavy-Wilson Lumber Company, vice president of the Bank of Commerce and Trust Company at Mansfield, vice President of the K. N.& W. Railway, vice president of the Sabine Neches Valley Railway, vice president of the Christie & Eastern Railway, vice president of the Louisiana State Life Insurance Company, treasurer and director of L. H. Gilmer Company of Louisiana, Inc., director of the Caddo-DeSoto Cotton Oil Company, and receiver for the Baird Company Department Store. Moore served as a member of the board of trustees of the former Mansfield Female College and Methodist-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport. He also served as president of the Shreveport chapter of the Boy Scouts of America, the president of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, president of the Desoto Parish Police Jury, financial director of the Louisiana State Southern Methodist Conference, director of Shreveport YMCA as well as director of the Louisiana Methodist Children's Home orphanage in Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish. Moore donated his stately home, constructed in 1920 with the use of Swiss craftsmen, at the southeast corner of Kings Highway and Fairfield Avenue to the City of Shreveport, which converted it into the Randle T. Moore Community Center. Moore's friend James C. Gardner, the mayor of Shreveport from 1954 to 1958, recalls that Moore asked him to spare some nearby oak trees from being razed to accommodate the widening of Kings Highway. Gardner said that his efforts to maintain the trees "established a trust with him that was shortly to manifest itself." Gardner explained that Moore agreed that upon his death or the passing of Mrs. Moore, whichever occurred last, the home would be donated to the city as a community center provided that parking could be procured "without destroying the beauty of the house and the land." References 1874 births 1957 deaths American philanthropists People from Shreveport, Louisiana American bankers Centenary