'Chelsea' was later inherited by Thomas Clarke's daughter, Charity Clarke Moore, and ultimately by grandson Clement and his family. Clarke named his house for a hospital in London that served war veterans. Thomas Clarke, Clement's maternal grandfather and a retired British veteran of the French and Indian War. Much of the neighborhood was once the property of Maj. This park is a popular playground area for local residents, who gather there the last Sunday of Advent for a reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas. The 1995 renovations to Clement Clarke Moore Park included a new perimeter fence, modular play equipment, safety surfacing, pavements and transplanted trees. The playground there opened November 22, 1968, and it was named in memory of Clement Clarke Moore by local law during the following year. The Moore house, Chelsea, at the time a country estate, gave its name to the surrounding neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan, and Moore's land in the area is noted today by Clement Clark Moore Park, located at 10th Avenue and 22nd Street. On November 29, 1899, his body was reinterred in Trinity Churchyard Cemetery in New York. Luke's Episcopal Church on Hudson St., in New York City. Then his body was interred in the cemetery at St. Upon his death in 1863 at his summer residence in Newport, Rhode Island, his funeral was held in Trinity Church, Newport, where he had owned a pew. He compiled a Hebrew and English Lexicon (1809), and published a collection of poems (1844). From 1840 to 1850, he was a board member of The New York Institution for the Blind at 34th Street and 9th Avenue (now The New York Institute for Special Education). The ground on which the seminary now stands was his gift.

He was made professor of Biblical learning in the General Theological Seminary in New York (1821), a post that he held until 1850. Clement Clarke Moore was a graduate of Columbia College (1798), where he earned both his B.A. He was the only son of Benjamin Moore, a president of Columbia College and bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, and his wife Charity Clarke. Moore was more famous in his own day as a professor of Oriental and Greek literature at Columbia College (now Columbia University) and at General Theological Seminary, who compiled a two volume Hebrew dictionary. Nicholas (more commonly known today as Twas the Night Before Christmas).Ĭlement C. Clement Clarke Moore, (J– July 10, 1863), is best known as the credited author of A Visit From St.

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