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Moore, Erasmus Darwin – Moore, Horatio Newton

Moore, Erasmus Darwin

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 30, 1802, in Winsted, Conn. He was a congregational minister and editor of Boston, and the author of Life Scenes in Mission Fields; and The New Heart. He died in 1889.

Moore, Frank

author, was born Dec. 17, 1828, in Concord, N. H. He is a writer of New York city who has edited a Cyclopedia of American Eloquence; and The Rebellion Record, and other compilations. Women of the War is one of his original works.

Moore, Frederic A

journalist, poet, was born Feb. 11, 1826, in Bristol, N. H. He is the author of The Book of Gems.

Moore, Gabriel

congressman, governor, United States senator, was born about 1790, in Stokes county, N. C. He • was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1822 to 1829; governor of the state from 1829 to 1831; and a senator in congress from 1831 to 1837. He died June 9, 1844, in Caddo, Texas.

Moore, George Henry

author, was born April 20, 1823, in Concord, N. H.

He was the superintendent of the Lenox library, New York city, from 1872 till his death. He was the author of History of the Jurisprudence of New York; Treason of Charles Lee; Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts; Washington as an Angler; and Employment of Negroes in the Revolutionary Army. He died in 1892.

Moore, Harry Humphrey

artist, was born July 2, 1844, in New York city.

His works, which are cmefly on Moorish, Spanish and Japanese subjects, include Almeh, the figure of a Moorish dancer in the Alhambra, for which he received a medal at the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition in 1876; The Blind Guitar Player; A Moorish Bazaar; A bulgarian; A Moorish Merchant; A Morning Call in Japan; The Daimio; and A Garden Party at the Alhambra.

Moore, Heman Allen

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1810, in Plainfield, Vt. He was appointed adjutant-general of the Ohio state militia; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to the time of his death. He died April 3, 1844, in Columbus, Ohio.

Moore, Henrietta G

universalist minister, temperance worker, lecturer, was born in Newark, Ohio. For a number of years she was engaged in educational work; and then took up the temperance crusade movement.

As a temperance organizer she has labored in every state and territory in the union. In 1891 she regularly dained a minister of the universalist church by the Ohio was oruniversalist convention in Columbus. She fills a pastorate in Springfield, Ohio; and is also prominently identified with the prohibitionists.

Moore, Henry

governor of New York, was born in 1713, in Jamaica, W. I.

He was the only native colonist that was ever governor of New York. He died Sept. 11, 1769, in New York city.

Moore, Henry D

merchant, congressman, was born April 17, 1817, in Goshen, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1849 to 1853; and for several years after leaving congress was treasurer of Pennsylvania.

Moore, Henry Eaton

journalist, composer, was born July 31, 1803, in Andover, N. H. He established and edited the Grafton Journal in Plymouth, N. H., in 1824-26, and subsequently taught music in Concord, N. H., and in Cambridge, Mass. A short time before his death he began the publication of the Boston Eoliad, a weekly musical journal. His publications include The Musical Catechism, and other musical works. He died Oct. 23, 1831, in East Cambridge, Mass.

Moore, Horatio Newton

author, was born in 1814 in New Jersey. He was the author of Orlando, a tragedy; The Regicide, a drama; Memoir of the Duanes; Mary Morris, a novel; and Lives of Marion and Wayne. He died Aug. 26, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa.