Clement Clarke Moore
Born(1843-09-18)September 18, 1843
Ossining, New York, U.S.
DiedDecember 15, 1910(1910-12-15) (aged 67)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Spouse
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(m. 1879)​
Children5, including Barrington
Parent(s)Benjamin Moore
Mary Elizabeth Sing Moore
RelativesClement C. Moore (grandfather)
Barrington Moore Jr. (grandson)

Clement Clarke Moore (September 18, 1843 – December 15, 1910)[1] was an American architect and soldier who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.

Early life

Moore was born in Ossining in Westchester County on September 18, 1843. He was the son of Benjamin Moore (1818–1886) and Mary Elizabeth (née Sing) Moore (1820–1895). His younger siblings were brother Casimir de Rham Moore,[lower-alpha 1] and sister Katherine T. Moore.[4]

His father was the eldest son of Catharine (née Taylor) Moore and Clement Clarke Moore, today known as the author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas".[lower-alpha 2] His paternal grandfather was the son of Bishop Benjamin Moore, the head of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and President of Columbia University.[6] His paternal grandmother was a descendant of the Van Cortlandt family.[7] His aunt Margaret Moore, and after her death, his aunt, Mary Clarke Moore, were married to John Doughty Ogden of the Ogden family.[lower-alpha 3] His father's first cousin, Nathaniel Fish Moore, also served as president of Columbia University from 1842 to 1849.[9]

Career

The Moore Mansion in the family's Chelsea estate, painted by Moore aunt, Mary Clarke (née Moore) Ogden, in 1855.

During the Civil War, Moore was a captain in the 20th Massachusetts Infantry in the Union Army.[10] After the war, he became a companion of the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

Following the War, he was a cotton broker until he received his share of his grandfather's estate in 1901, at which point he moved to Paris with his family.[11]

Chelsea estate

Moore inherited his grandfather's estate, named Chelsea, located on the west side of the island of Manhattan above Houston Street, which was mostly open countryside before the 1820s.[12] It had been owned by his grandfather's maternal grandfather, Maj. Thomas Clarke, a retired British veteran of the French and Indian War (the North American front of the Seven Years' War). Clarke named his house for the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London that served war veterans.[13]

His grandfather inherited the property from his mother, Charity Clarke Moore in 1813.[14] In 1883, the elder Moore was offered $40,000 for the Chelsea farm. He seriously considered selling, but decided to keep the property and its value grew exponentially as the area developed. The estate was later passed down to his father, Benjamin Moore, and then to Moore and his family upon his father's death.[15] The contemporary Manhattan neighborhood is known as Chelsea after his estate.[12]

Society life

In 1892, Moore and his wife were both included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.[16][11] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.[17] Mrs. Moore was "the first society woman to ride a bicycle in Newport."[18] Moore owned a summer "cottage" on Catherine Street in Newport, Rhode Island.

Personal life

In 1879, Moore was married to Laura Martha Williams (1856–1919). Laura was the daughter of William S. Williams of New York City and Mrs. Martha Church Williams, of Philadelphia. In New York, they lived at 57 East 54th Street, and in Paris, they lived at 82 Avenue Monceau. Together, Clement and Laura were the parents of:

A month after his wife suffered a stroke of paralysis, Moore died of pneumonia at the Hotel Belmont in New York City on December 15, 1910.[1] After a funeral held at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, he was buried at Dale Cemetery in Ossining.[10] His wife, who later lived at 960 Park Avenue in New York City, died in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1919.[31]

Descendants

Through his son William, he was the grandfather of four boys,[32] Adrian P. Moore, David E. Moore (1923–2011),[33] Richard Moore, and William S. Moore Jr., the last two both died in World War II.[20][34]

Through his son Barrington, he was the grandfather of Barrington Moore Jr. (1913–2005), a political sociologist known for his work Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, and Dr. Peter Van Cortlandt Moore (c. 1920–2006), a physician who was a professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Hospital.[35]

Through his son Benjamin, he was the grandfather of Alexander Moore (1923–2000), a Harvard graduate and decorated World War II fighter pilot.[36]

References

Notes
  1. ↑ Clement's brother, Casimir de Rham Moore (b. 1851), a lawyer,[2] was named after Henry Casimir de Rham (1785–1873), a Swiss–American merchant and diplomat (of "de Rham, Iselin & Moore"), who married Maria Moore (1784–1855), the daughter of Dr. William Moore (brother of Bishop Benjamin Moore and his wife Jane (née Fish) Moore.[3]
  2. ↑ "A Visit from St. Nicholas", first published anonymously in 1823, later became widely known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas".[5]
  3. ↑ John Doughty Ogden (1804–1887) was a grandson of U.S. Attorney Abraham Ogden and nephew of U.S. Representative David A. Ogden.[8]
  4. ↑ The name Barrington came from William Barrington, 3rd Viscount Barrington, who married Maria-Theresa Clarke (sister of Charity Clarke and sister-in-law of Clement Clarke Moore),[23] both of whom were lost at sea in 1801.[24]
  5. ↑ Muriel's aunt was photographer Catharine Weed Barnes and her great-grandfather was publisher Thurlow Weed.[25] Her maternal grandfather was John Albert Morris, a prominent figure in the sport of thoroughbred horse racing, and her uncles were Alfred Hennen Morris and Dave Hennen Morris.[25]
  6. ↑ Alexandra's sisters were Audrey Emery (1904–1971) (married to Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia and after their divorce, Georgian Prince Dimitri Djordjadze)[29] and Lela Emery (1901–1962) (married to Alastair Mackintosh and Hély Talleyrand-Périgord, the 4th Marquis de Talleyrand, 7th Duc de Talleyrand et Dino).
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  2. ↑ Biographical Directory of the State of New York, 1900. Biographical Directory Company (incorporated). 1900. p. 320. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Bergen, Tunis Garret (1915). Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 770. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  4. ↑ Genealogical Record of the Saint Nicholas Society: Advanced Sheets, First Series. Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. 1902. p. 42. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  5. ↑ Nissenbaum, Stephen (1997). The Battle for Christmas: A Social and Cultural History of Christmas that Shows How It Was Transformed from an Unruly Carnival Season into the Quintessential American Family Holiday. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-41223-9.
  6. ↑ "DR. MOORE'S GRAVE VISITED BY CHILDREN - Wreath Is Placed in Memory of Yuletide Poem's Author at Annual Ceremony. TABLET ALSO HONORS HIM It Is Unveiled at Chelsea Spot Where Verse Was Written--Dickens's Son Remembered. - Article - NYTimes.com". 25 December 1930.
  7. ↑ Constant, Silas; Roebling, Emily Warren (1903). The Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Yorktown, New York: With Some of the Records of the Church and a List of His Marriages, 1784-1825, Together with Notes on the Nelson, Van Cortlandt, Warren, and Some Other Families Mentioned in the Journal. Private Circulation. p. 431. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
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  16. ↑ McAllister, Ward (16 February 1892). "THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED | WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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  18. ↑ "ACCIDENT TO MRS. CLEMENT C. MOORE. First to Ride a Bicycle in Newport and First to be Hurt — Social News" (PDF). The New York Times. September 14, 1894. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  19. ↑ "William Scoville Moore". Chicago Tribune. 30 Mar 1944. p. 25. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  20. 1 2 "Edith Pulitzer Moore Dies; Last Child of Publisher". The New York Times. 7 April 1975. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  21. ↑ "MISS EDITH PULITZER WEDS. Daughter of Late Joseph Pulitzer Married to William S. Moore" (PDF). The New York Times. December 22, 1911. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
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  24. ↑ Burke, John (1838). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc. Henry Colburn. p. 241. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  25. 1 2 "LEWIS CASS LEDYARD MARRIES MRS. MORRIS; Their Engagement, Made Three Weeks Ago, Not Announced. FEW AT THE QUIET WEDDING The Bride Was the Wife of Thurlow Weed Barnes -- Dave Hennen Morris a Brother". The New York Times. 7 June 1906. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  26. ↑ "MISS MURIEL MORRIS A BRIDE.; Wedded to Barrington Moore of the United States Forestry Service". The New York Times. 21 December 1910. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  27. ↑ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. J. T. White & Co. 1922. p. 18. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  28. ↑ "BENJAMIN MOORE, 50, LAWYER AND SOLDIER; Served Since 1931 as Mayor of Village of Muttontown" (PDF). The New York Times. May 14, 1938. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  29. ↑ "Mrs. Audrey Emery, Duke Dmitri Widow" (PDF), The New York Times, New York City, 26 November 1971
  30. ↑ "Robert G. M'Kay, 71, A Retired Banker". The New York Times. November 28, 1958.
  31. ↑ "MRS. CLEMENT MOORE DIES. Social Leader Who Gave Her Three Sons $2,000,000 In Real Estate" (PDF). The New York Times. August 7, 1919. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  32. ↑ Columbia, David Patrick (9 February 2011). "The Trouble With Footmen: Servant Problems in Old Bar Harbor". New York Social Diary. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  33. ↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths MOORE, DAVID E". The New York Times. August 5, 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
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  36. ↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths MOORE, ALEXANDER". The New York Times. 25 February 2000. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
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