[Clement Moore]. American clergyman and author, born in Troy, NY, on the 16th of October 1810; died in Philadelphia on the 5th of March 1890. He was graduated at Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, CT, in 1883, and three years later at the General Theological Seminary, New York City. He was pastor successively of churches in New York City, Palmyra, NY, Georgetown, District of Columbia, Boston and Washington, serving also as chaplain of the United States Senate from 1849 to 1853. From 1861 to 1864 he was in Rome, Italy, as rector of Grace Church, and chaplain to the United States minister there. Returning to the United States in 1864, he became professor of ecclesiastical history in the divinity school of the Protestent Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, where he remained for twenty years, until obliged by failing health to resign. Among the numerous books of which he is the author are The Book of Common Prayer Interpreted by Its History; Old Truths and New Errors; Ritualism of Law; Manual of Ecclesiastical History from the First to the Nineteenth Century; History of the Reformation in Sweden; and many sermons, including the funeral sermons of John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay, which were printed by order of the Senate.
