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tempt to popularize the old lay in America ; For My Musical Friend (1900) ; For Ecery Music Lover ^ or How to Know Music (1902), and numerous sketclies, essays and stories in current periodicals. MOOREt Bartholomew Figures, lawyer, was born in Halifax county, N.C., Jan. 29, 1801 ; son of James and Sally (Lowe) Moore ; grandson of James Moore of Southampton county, N.C., and a descendant of James Moore the immigrant. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1820 and was admitted to the bar in 1822. He represented Halifax county in the house of com- mons, 1836, 1840, 1842, 1844 and 1866, and was attorney-general of the state, 1848-51, resigning on being appointed one of the commissioners to revise the statute law of the state. His position among the legal fraternity for twenty-five years gave to him the title " Father of the Bar of North Carolina." He was a trustee of the Uni- versity of North Carolina, 1840-68 and 1875-78, and received from that institution the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1868. He was a delegate to the convention called in 1865 to reconstruct the government of the state. He bequeathed $1000 to the Masonic orphan asylum of the state. He is the author of : Revised Code of North] Carolina (1850). He died in Raleigh, N.C., Nov. 27, 1878. MOORE, Benjamin, second bishop of New York and 9th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Newtown, Long Island, N.Y., Oct. 5, 1748; son of Lieut. Samuel and Sarah (Fish) Moore ; grandson of Benjamin and

Anna (Sackett) Moore, and greats-grandson of John Moore, an Independent minis- ter, the first allowed to minister in New England, who died in 1657. He attend- ed the schools of Newtown, L.I.. and was graduated from King's (Columbia) college, A.B., 1768, y .. A.M., 1771. He en-

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Greek in New York city, and was prepared for the ministry by tlie Rev. Dr. Auchmuty, rector of Trinity church. New York. He went to England, in May, 1774, and was ordered deacon in the chapel of Fulham Palace, June 24, 1774, and ordained priest at the same place, June 29, 1774, by Dr. Richard Terrick, bishop of London. He was married on March 20, 1779, to Charity Clarke, by whom he had one child, Clement C. Moore (q.v.). Mrs. Moore died Dec. 4, 1838, in the ninety-second year of her age.

He was elected assistant minister of Trinity parish, February, 1775, an dcontinued in that po- sition until November, 1783, when he was elected rector. The election was contested and Dr. Pro- voost was declared rector, Feb. 5, 1784. Mr. Moore thereupon resumed his duties as assistant minis- ter, serving under Dr. Provoost until his re- signation, and on Dec. 22, 1800, he succeeded as rector of Trinity parish, which rectorship he held until his death in 1811. Upon the resignation of Bishop Provoost, Sept. 7, 1801, which was not accepted by the house of bishops, Dr. Moore was elected coadjutor bishop of New York, and was consecrated in St. Michael's churcli, Trenton, N.J., Sept. 11, 1801, by Bishops White, Claggett and Jarvis. A stroke of paralysis, in 181 1, incapac- itated him foe further service, and on May 9, 1811, he asked for an assistant, whereupon Dr. Hobart was elected and consecrated on May 29, 1811, as assistant bishop of New York. On the death of Bishop Provoost, Sept. 6, 1815, Dr. Moore became the second bishop of New York. He was president jjro tempore of King's college, 1775-76 ; was piofessor of rhetoric and logic in Columbia, 1784-87; received the degree of D.D. from Co- lumbia in 1801 ; and was president, 1801-11, and a trustee, 1802-13. He was a regent of the University of the State of New York, 1787- 1802. He is the author of a few single sermons and of a controversial pamphlet in defense of the Protestant Episcopal clmrch. He died in Green- wich village, New York city, Feb. 27, 1816.

MOORE, Clara 5ophia (Jessup), author, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 16, 1824; daugh- ter of Professor Augustus E. and Lydia (Moseley) Jessup. She was brought up in Massachusetts, and attended school at Westfield academy, and in New Haven, Conn. She was married, Oct. 27, 1842, to Bloomfield Haines Moore, a paper manu- facturer of Philadelphia. During the civil war she established the Women's Pennsylvania branch of the U.S. Sanitary commission in Philadelphia,, of which she was corresponding secretary, and the special relief committee for hospital work. She also projected and aided in the establishment of the Union Temporary Home for Children in Philadelphia. She devoted herself to literary work after her marriage, and at fii-st wrote under the pen-name of Mrs. Clara Moreton. After Mr. Moore's death in 1878, she obtained legal right to sign herself Bloomfield-Moore. She removed to London, England, in 1887. She is the author of : The Diamond Crosa (1857); MabeVs Mission (1875); Master Jacky^s Holiday (1875); Poeinsand Storie9 (1875); On Dangerous Ground (1876); Sensible Etiquette {\S7S); Gondaline's Lesson (1881); Slan- der and Gossip (1882) ; The Warden's Tale, and Other Poems Old and New (1883); and Ether the True Protoplasm (1885), written in explanation of