Clement Clarke Moore (clubman)

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.

[b] His paternal grandfather was the son of Bishop Benjamin Moore, the head of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and President of Columbia University.

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] 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.

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.

[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.