Moore, Augusta – Moore, Jehiel Tuttle
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, Charles Leonard
lawyer, author, poet, was born March 16, 1854, in Philadelphia. He is a lawyer and poet of Philadelphia; and the author of Poems Antique and Modern; Banquet of Palacios, a Comedy; and A Book of Day Dreams, a volume of poems.
MOORE, MRS. CLARA [JESSUP], author, poet, was born Feb. 16, 1824, in Philadelphia. She is a Philadelphia author who lived much abroad, mainly in London. She is the author of Master Jacky's Holidays; Frank and Fanny; The Diamond Cross; Mabel's Mission; Poems and Stories; On Dangerous Ground, a novel; Gondaline's Lesson; Sensible Etiquette; Slander and Gossip; Social Ethics; and The Warden's Tale, and Other Poems.
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, Eliakim Hastings
surveyor, banker, congressman, was born June 19, 1812, in Worcester county, Mass.
From 1836 to 1846 he was county surveyor of Ohio; and from 1846 to 1860 county auditor. He was a director, and then president for many years, of the Athens branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and subsequently of the First National bank of Athens. In 1862 he was appointed a collector of internal revenue; and in 1868 was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-first congress.
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.
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, Horace L
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 25, 1837, in Mantua, Ohio. He enlisted as a private soldier in the second Kansas infantry May 14, 1861, and served continuously until June 30, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service as lieutenant-colonel of the fourth Arkansas cavalry; and commanded the eighteenth and nineteenth regiments of Kansas cavalry in the United States service, serving against the Indians on the plains in 1867-68. He has been engaged in mercantile pursuits since the close of his service in the army, except for two years, when he was treasurer of Douglas county, Kansas. He was elected to the fifty-third congress. He is now engaged in compiling a genealogy of the Moore family.
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.
Moore, Jacob Bailey
journalist, author, was born Oct. 31, 1797, in Andover, N. H. He was a journalist who was postmaster of San Francisco in 1849- 53, and the author of Laws of Trade in the United States; Gazetteer of New Hampshire; and Annals of Concord, New Hampshire. He died Sept. 1, 1853, in Bellows Falls, N. Y.
Moore, James
governor, was born about 1640 in Ireland. He emigrated to this country about 1665, settled in Charleston, S. C., and in 1700 was governor of the state. He died in 1729 in Charleston, S. C.
Moore, James
soldier, was born in 1737, in New Hanover, N. C. He served in the revolutionary war and was promoted brigadier-general; made commander-in-chief of the southern department, and received the thanks of congress. He died Jan. 15, 1777, in Wilmington, N. C.
Moore, Jehiel Tuttle
physician, surgeon, lecturer, was born Oct. 4, 1848, in Ontario, Canada. He was dean of the Minneapolis college of physicians and surgeons for thirteen years, and lecturer on theory and practice of medicine for the past fourteen years.