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the secret of the Kelley motor, in which she was interested, having supported the alleged inventor and advanced to him large sums of money. She died in London, England, Jan. 5, 1899.

MOORE, Clement Clarke, educator, was born at •' Chelsea", New York city, July 15, 1779 ; son of the Rt. Rev. Benjamin and Charity (Clarke) Moore ; grandson of Samuel and Sarah (Fish) Moore, and (»f Maj. Thomas Clarke, an officer of

the British army (whose county seat, "Chelsea," a suburb of New York on tlie North river side, passed to Bishop Benjamin Moore by marriage to Charity, Major Clarke's second daughter), and a descendant of John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, an Independent clergyman and the first minister of the settlement, who died in 1657. He was graduated from Columbia, A.B., 1798, A.M., 1801. He studied theology with his father but did not take orders ; was a trustee of Columbia, 1813-57, and clerk of the board of trustees, 1815- 50. He made a generous gift in 1818 of an entire block of the "Chelsea" estate. New York city, to the newly organized General Theological sem- minary of the Protestant Episcopal church, which had been established by general convention, May 29, 1817, and removed to New Haven, Conn., Sept. 13, 1820. The condition of the gift was that its building should be erected on the block given, and this was done, the corner-stone being laid July 28, 1825. He was a professor of Hebrew and Greek in the General Theological seminary, 1821-50, and professor emeritus, 1850-63. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Columbia in 1829. His published works are • A Hebrew and Oreek Lexicon (2 vols., 1809); Bi8hop Benjamin Moore' 8 Sermons (2 vols., 1824); Poems (\SA-l)', George Cast riot, Surnamed Scan- derherg. King of Albania (1850), and he also wrote the well-known ballad so popular with children, ^Twas the Night before Christmas. He died at Newjjort, R.I„ July 10, 1863.

MOORE, Daniel David Tompkins, journalist, was born in Marcellus, N.Y., Feb. 2, 1820. In 1835 he was apprenticed in the printing office of the Rochester, N.Y., Advertiser, and was later for two years a clerk in the Rochester post office.

He studied law, but upon the death of his brother he succeeded him as publisher of the Weekly Gazette at Jackson, Mich. He established the Michigan Farmer, and in 1846 purchased the Genesee Fanner, which he edited for three years. He began the publication of Moore's Rural New Yorker on Jan. 1, 1850, and in 1869 removed it from Rochester to New York city, but this proved disastrous and the paper passed from his hands. It was still published in 1902 under the same name. His next venture, Moore's Rural Life, was a failure, and he devoted the remainder of his life to conducting agricultural departments in various newspapers and magazines. While in Rochester he held several important offices, in- cluding that of mayor. He died in New York city, June 3, 1892.

MOORE, David Hastings, M. E. bishop, was born in Athens, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1838 ; son of Eliakim Hastings, and Amy (Barker) Moore ; grandson of David and Dolly (Hastings) Moore, and of Michael and Isabella (Harper) Barker, and a descendant of Thomas Hastings, who came from Suffolk, England, to Watertovvn, Mass., 1634. He attended the public schools of Athens, and was graduated from the Ohio university, A.B., 1860, A.M., 1863. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1860. In 1862, he volunteered in the Federal army ; was promoted captain in the 87th Ohio volunteers, and major and lieutenant-colonel of the 125th Ohio volunteers. At the close of the war he re- entered the ministry. He was president of Cin- cinnati Wesleyan college, 1875-80 ; president of the Colorado seminary, and chancellor of the University of Denver, 1880-89, and was elected professor of political economy in the University of Colorado in 1889. He edited the Western Christian Advocate, 1889-90. He was elected a bishop in I\Iay, 1900, and was assigned to Eastern Asia, with his residence in Shanghai, China. He married, June 21, 1860, Julia Sophia, daughter of Cephas and Maria Theresa (Hawkes) Carpen- ter, Of his children, Eliakim Hastings Moore (q.v.), became professor at the University of Chicago ; William Augustus Moore, M.A., LL.B., professor of law at the Denver University law school ; and Alfred Truman Moore, A.M., LL.B., city editor of the Cincinnati Post. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the Ohio Wesleyan university in 1875, that of LL.D., by Mount Union college in 1896, and by the Uni- versity of Denver in 1899.

MOORE, Edward Mott, surgeon, was born in Rah way, N.J., July 15, 1814 ; son of Lindley Murray and Abigail (Mott) Moore. His father, a distinguished Quaker, was a leader of the anti- slavery movement. He attended the schools of New York city and Rochester, N.Y., and was