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Moore, Andrew

congressman, was born in 1752 in Canniscello, Va. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1789 to 1797, and again from 1803 to 1804, when he was appointed to the United States senate. He died April 14, 1821, near Lexington, Va.

Moore, Andrew B

educator, governor. He was governor of Alabama from 1857 to 1863. He died April 5, 1873, in Marion, Ala.

MOORE, MRS. ANNIE AUBERTINE [WOODWARD], author, was born Sept. 27, 1841, in Montgomery county, Pa. She is a Wisconsin translator of note from the Norse; co-translator with Anderson of Björnson's novels, and editor of Echoes from Mist Land.

Moore, Audrey C

journalist, physician, was born March 12, 1867, in La Grange, Mo. He is a prominent physician of Anaheim, Cal.; and is the editor and owner of the Osteopath, a medical journal. He is vice-president of the Pacific School of Osteopathy, and demonstrator in osteopathy in that institution.

Moore, Augusta

poet. She has contributed a number of poems to the leading periodical and local press of Maine.

MOORE, BARTHOLOMEW FIGURES, lawyer, state legislator, was born Jan. 29, 1801, in Halifax county, N. C. He was in the North Carolina legislature in 1836- 44. He was attorney-general of North Carolina in 1848, and was appointed to revise the laws of that state in 1849-54.

He died Nov. 27, 1878, in Raleigh, N. C.

Moore, Charles

journalist, author, was born March 29, 1801, in Boston, Mass.

He was a successful journalist and author of Boston, Mass.; and founded Zion's Herald in 1823.

Moore, Charles Caldwell

inventor, was born Feb. 13, 1830, in Marion, N. Y. He served in the civil war and was made quartermaster, serving in that capacity for three years. In 1865 he invented and patented the Moore's cushioned blotter.

Moore, Charles Herbert

educator, author, was born in 1840 in New York. He is a professor of art at Harvard university, and the author of The Development and Character of Gothic Architecture, a work of much value; and Examples for Elementary Practice in Delineation.

Moore, Clement Clarke

educator, author, poet, was born July 15, 1779, in New York city. He was an educator of New York city, and professor of oriental literature in the General Theological seminary in 1821-63. He published a Hebrew- English Lexicon and a volume of poems, but is more widely known as the author of the famous poem, The Visit of St.

Nicholas. He died July 10, 1863, in Newport, R. I.

Moore, David Albert

physician, author, was born Nov. 8, 1814, in Lansing, N. Y. He is a physician of Syracuse, and the author of A Panorama of Time; and How She Won Him.

Moore, Dunlop

clergyman, author, was born July 25, 1830, in Ireland. Since 1875 he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian church of New Brighton, Pa. He assisted in translating the Scriptures into the Gujurati language, wrote treatises on Mohammedanism and Jainism, and edited a monthly periodical, The Gnyandipaka, in the same tongue.

Moore, Edwin Ward

naval officer, was born in 1811, in Alexandria, Va. In 1836 he was selected by the new government of Texas for the chief command of its navy, with the rank of commodore.

He died Oct. 5, 1865, in New York city.

Moore, Ely

journalist, congressman.

He was a representative in congress from New York from 1835 to 1839. He was appointed Indian agent in Kansas territory; and at the time of his death was register of a land office in Kansas. He died Jan. 26, 1860.