Nathaniel Fish Moore (December 25, 1782 – April 27, 1872)[1] was the eighth president of Columbia College; he had earlier been a lawyer and served on the faculty.

[4] Moore resigned his professorship in 1835 to travel to Europe and the Holy Land, and was appointed as the first full-time Librarian of the College in 1838 upon his return.

[5] Four years later, in 1842, Moore was elected the eighth president of the college, resigning under unremarkable circumstances in 1849.

[6] After visiting the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, he became interested in photography,[7] and was one of the first amateur photographers in New York City.

[8] He was reportedly so interested in his new hobby “that he frequently came to dinner wearing cotton gloves, because his hands were so stained with photographic chemicals.”[9] * indicates acting or interim president or chancellor