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Augusta, daughter of Maj. Jacob Brown, U.S.A., who resided with her daughter, Lizzie Story (Moore) Bayne, in New York city, in 1902. He was stationed at the U.S. Military academy as surgeon, 185&-61, resigned from the army, Feb. 25, 1861, and became surgeon-general of the Confederate States army and navy, in June, 1861, serving until the close of the war. He practised in Richmond, Va., 1865-89; was pres- ident of the Association of Medical and Surgical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States, 1874-89, and a vice-president of the section of military and naval surgery in the Ninth Inter- national congress, 1887. He died at Richmond, Va., May 31, 1889.

MOOREt Sydenham, representative, was born in Huntsville, Ala., in 1817 ; son of Dr. Alfred

and (Jones) Moore, and grandson of John

and Rebecca (Fletcher) Moore of the Cape Fear district, N.C. He entered the University of Alabama in 1833, leaving in 1836 while in the senior year, and pnictised law in Greene county. He served as a private in the Cherokee Indian war, 1838. He was judge of the Greene county court, 1840-46 and 1848-50, and at the outbreak of the Mexican war joined the U.S. volunteer army as captain. He served throughout the war, first with General Taylor on the Rio Grande, and afterward in General Scott's army at Tam- pico. Vera Cruz, Alvarado and Japala. In 1847 lie was elected brigadier-general of state militia. He was judge of the circuit court, 1857, and a representative in the 35th and 36th congresses, 1857-61. He was married to Amanda, sister of Col. E. L. Hobson of the 5th Alabama volunteers, C.S.A., and their son, Rittenhouse Moore, was a resident of Mobile, Ala., in 1902. Judge Moore served in the C.S. army as colonel in the 11th Ala- bama regiment in Wilcox's brigade, Longstreet's division, right wing of Johnston's army. He died from wounds received at the battle of Seven Pines, Va., May 31, 1862.

MOORE, Thomas Overton, governor of Louis- iana, was born in North Carolina in 1805. His grandfather, Gen. Thomas Overton, was a major during the Revolutionary war. He removed to Louisiana and settled in Rap- ides Parish as a cotton-planter. He was a state senator in 18- 56, and in 1860 was elected governor of Louisiana on the Democratic ticket to succeed Gov. Robert C. Wickliflfe. During his administration Louisiana seceded from the union, and Governor Moore organized the state militia, and with these troops seized the U.S. military posts and garri- sons in the state. Upon the capture of New Orleans by the Federal army in 1862, he cali^d

together the state legislature at Opelousas. and subsequently it was reassembled at Shreve- port. His term of office expired in 1864, aad he was succeeded by Henry VVatkins Allen. He died in Rapides Parish, La., in June, 1876.

MOORE, Thomas Patrick, representative, was born in Charlotte county, Va., in 1797. Here- moved with his parents to Harrodsburg, Ky.,and attended the Transylvania university. He served in the war of 1812 as secretary to Col. John B. Campbell, after whose death he returned home, and served for several terms in the state legislature. He was a Democratic representative in the 18th, 19th and 20th congresses, 1823-29, and was U.S. minister to Columbia, 1829-34. Upon his return to Kentucky, he received a cer- tificate of election to the 24th congress, 1835-37, but the seat was successfully contested by Robert P. Letcher. He served during the Mexican war as lieutenant-colonel, 3rd U.S. dragoons, and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention, 1849. He died in Harrodsburg, Ky. , July 21, 1853.

MOORE, Thomas Verner, clergyman, was born in Newville, Pa., Feb. 1, 1818. He matri- culated at Hanover college, Ind., class of 1835 ; was graduated from Dickinson college. Pa., in 1838, and from Princeton Theological seminary in 1842. He was ordained by the presbytery of Carlisle, June 21, 1842, and was pastor at Carlisle, Pa., 1842-45; at Greencastle, Pa., 1845-47, and of the First church, Richmond, Va., 1847-68. With Dr. ]\Ioses D. Hoge he edited the Central Presby- terian, 1856-60, and in 1868 removed to Nash- ville, Tenn., where he was pastor of the First church, 1869-71. In 1867 he was moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Dickinson college in 1853. He is the author of : Commentaries on Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi (1856); Last Words of Jesus (1859); Ood's Universittj (1804); The Culdee Church (1865), and The Corporate Life of the Church {\8Qil). He died in Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 5, 1871.

MOORE, William, jurist, was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., May 6, 1699 ; son of John Moore, a native of England, who immigrated with his brother James to South Carolina in 1680, prac- tised law there and removed to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1697, where he was attorney-general, dep- uty judge, register-general and collector of the customs of the province. William was graduated at the University of Oxford in 1719, and settled at Moore Hall, Chester county, Pa., which prop- erty his father deeded to him in 1729. He repre- sented Chester county in the Pennsylvania assembly, 1733-40 ; was a justice of the peace, and presiding judge of the county court, 1741-81. He was colonel of a Chester county militia regi- ment, during the Indian troubles, and became-