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Benjamin Moore (1818–1886), who married Mary Elizabeth Sing (1820–1895), in 1842, and was the father of Clement Clarke Moore, [2] grandfather of Barrington Moore Sr., and great grandfather of Barrington Moore Jr. Mary Clarke Moore (1819–1893), who married John Doughty Ogden, her older sister's widower, in 1848. [36]
The cover of a series of illustrations for the "Night Before Christmas", published as part of the Public Works Administration project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms "A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St ...
Illustration to verse 1 Illustration to verse 2 "Old Santeclaus with Much Delight" is an anonymous illustrated children's poem published in New York in 1821, predating by two years the first publication of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("Twas the Night before Christmas").
The Night Before Christmas (1905).. The Night Before Christmas is a 1905 American silent short film directed by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. [1] It closely follows Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem Twas the Night Before Christmas, and was the first film production of the poem.
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.
The poem, generally attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, was published anonymously by the Troy Sentinel on December 23, 1823. In July 2012, Gramercy Communications moved their corporate offices into the former home of the Troy Sentinel. The company paid a grant to Troy Public Library to digitize the full collection of the newspaper.
It is rumored that the famous poem "A Visit from St. Nicolas", (known more commonly as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"), by Clement Clarke Moore was written about this building for two reasons. The first reason was that Moore was the cousin of Mary Eliza, the wife of Constable Hall architect, William Constable Jr.
Clement Clarke Moore (1798), son of bishop Benjamin Moore; professor of Oriental and Greek literature; attributed author of The Night Before Christmas; John Anthon (1801), jurist; John Church Hamilton (1809), son of Alexander Hamilton, American historian; Charles Anthon (1815), classical scholar and translator known for the Anthon Transcript