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and surgeon-general of the U.S. array, with the rank of brigadier-general, Nov. 18, 1886. He served at army headquarters, Washington, D.C., 1885-90, and was retired by operation of law, Aug. 10. 1890.

MOORE, John, R.C. bishop, was born in Castletowii-Delvin, county Westmeath, Ireland, June 24. 1834. In 1848 he immigrated to Charles- ton, S.C, where he began his classical studies. He completed his classical course in the college

of Combree, in the department of Maine- et-Loire, France, 18- 51-56, finishing his philosophical studies in the Gregorian uni- versity, Rome. He studied theology in

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56-60, taking the de- gree of D.D., and was ordained priest, April 9, 1860. He J -^ ^ was appointed as-

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cathedral chapel of St. John the Baptist, Charleston, in October, 1860, and soon afterward was made rector of the cathedral. Throughout the civil war he attended the sick of both armies in the hospitals of Charleston, and paid weekly visits to the Federal prisoners in the stockade near Florence, S.C. During the absence of Bishop Lynch in Europe he was administrator of the diocese. The cathe- dral was burned down in the fall of 1861, and for the greater part of the war, but especially during the bombardment of the city, there was but a remnant of the once flourishing parish left. In 1864 he was appointed rector of St. Patrick's parish, then in a disorganized condition, and he succeeded in reconstructing the parish, enlarging the church, building a parsonage, and organizing the largest Sunday soliool in the city. In 1873 he was appointed vicar-general, which office he hel<l, together with the rectorship of St. Patrick's, until he was nominated bishop of St. Augustine, as successor to Bishop Verot, who died, June 10, 1876. Dr. Moore was consecrated bishop in the pro-cathedral by Bishop Lynch, on May 13, 1877. For the purpose of the education of youth and the care of the sick he established in his diocese eight houses of the Sisters of St. Joseph, two of the Sisters of the Holy Names, and two of the Sisters of St. Benedict: and a college for young men and boys was opened in 1893 at St. Leo's, in Pasco county, under the charge of the Benedict- ine Fathers. In Jacksonville he founded St. Mary's Home, an orphanage for girls, under the

care of the Sisters of St. Joseph, and instituted churches, missions and schools in other parts of the state, having in 1901, 2500 young people under his care in various institutions. Bishop Moore died in St. Augustine, Fla., July 30, 1901.

MOORE, John Bassett, lawyer, diplomat and publicist, was born in Smyrna, Del.. Dec. 3. 1860; son of Dr. John A. and Martha A. (Ferguson) Moore; grandson of Thomas J. and Mary (Johnson) Moore, and of Bassett and Susan (Weldon) Fer- guson. He attended private schools at Felton, Del., and in 1787 entered the Uni- versity of Virginia, where he gave spec- ial attention to the classics, history, lit- erature, moral philos- ophy and logic. In 1880 he began the study of law with Edward G. Bradford of Wilmington, Del., and he was admit- ted to the bar in 18- 83. In July, 1885, after a competitive examination, he entered the civil service in the department of state, Wash- ington, D.C., and in August, 1886, he was pro- moted to the position of third assistant secretary of state. He acted as secretary on the American side in the fisheries conference at Wa.shington, 1887-88, and was also secretary of the conference between the secretary of state and the German and British ministers, in June and July, 1887, relative to affairs in Samoa, and prepared all the protocols of the conference. In 1891 he resigned from the state department to accept the chair of in- ternational law and diplomacy at Columbia uni- versity. In April, 1898, on the outbreak of the war with Spain, he was appointed by President McKinley assistant secretary of state, which posi- tion he resigned, Sept. 16, 1898, to accept the position of secretary and counsel to the peace commission, which concluded at Paris, Dec. 10. 1898, the treaty of peace with Spain. He re- sumed his duties at Columbia university in Feb- ruary, 1899. In the summer of 1901 he held a series of conferences on international law at the Naval War college, Newport, R.I. He was elected to membership in various scientific so- cieties, including the Institut Colonial Inter- national, the American Historical Association, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and an associate of the Institut de Droit International. He received the honor- ary degree of LL.D. from Columbia university, in 1899, from Delaware college, Newark, Del.,