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| via NYU Irish Studies Research Collective |
About this time [Spring of 1843] I remember seeing frequently at my uncle's house, Mr. Clement C. Moore, who I think was a connection, or at least he and his daughter were very intimate with the McEvers family. In after life it was my good fortune to have met Mr. Moore frequently and I always found him an agreeable talker. He then lived at his country place, "Chelsea," on the banks of the Hudson River; the site is now covered by the Episcopal Theological Seminary, on the block between Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets and Ninth and Tenth Avenues. At my last visit to that neighborhood, it seemed to me that there had been a great deal of filling in along the river front.
Mr. Moore was the author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas,"Accessible online courtesy of HathiTrust Digital Library:
" 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the housea poem which will be remembered so long as the English language exists.
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse" —
<https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015033176937?urlappend=%3Bseq=184>Moore seemed an "agreeable talker" to Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet (1828-1919), son of John Patten Emmet (1796-1842) and grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet the distinguished Irish and American lawyer. The uncle was Bache McEvers who had married Jane Erin Emmet (TAE's aunt, his father's sister). Clement C. Moore later wrote a poem for their daughter Jeanette, at her request.
Like other contemporaries, Thomas Addis Emmet was impressed by Moore's friendly and sociable manner. Privately, Moore must have deeply felt the loss of his wife Eliza and two daughters, then a third when his married daughter Margaret Elliot Ogden died a few years later, in April 1845.
Moore's daughter Emily died on April 18, 1828; age 6.
His wife Catherine Elizabeth (Taylor) Moore died April 30, 1830; age 47.
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| New York Evening Post - April 5, 1830 |
Clement C. Moore’ 2nd daughter Charity’s death 14 Dec 1830 Wed, Dec 15, 1830 – Page 2 · The Evening Post (New York, New York) · Newspapers.com
Moore's daughter Margaret Elliott Ogden died April 13, 1845; age 30.
Tue, Apr 15, 1845 – Page 3 · New-York Tribune (New York, New York) · Newspapers.com
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| New York Spectator - April 16, 1845 |
<http://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/moorejeannettesnewyearspoem.htm>
Jeanette Emmet McEvers (1826-1884) was Thomas Addis Emmet's cousin, the daughter of Bache McEvers (1798-1851) and Jane Erin Emmet (1802-1887).
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