Tuttle inquiring about the author of the poem the paper had published, and Mr. In 1844 Moore wrote to then Troy Sentinel publisher N. Authorship was not attributed to Moore until 1837, and Moore himself did not claim the poem as his own until 1844 when he included it in a book of poems published at the urging of his children. Nicholas,” now more commonly known as “The Night Before Christmas,” was first published anonymously in the Troy Sentinel on December 23, 1823.

A map showing the land owned by Moore can be seen below.Ĭlement Clarke Moore.

Moore’s requirements for sale, including no commercial use, helped to shape the neighborhood. He divided the remaining lots of land for residential development. Moore was a well-known Biblical scholar of his time and became a professor of Oriental and Greek Literature and Divinity and Biblical Learning at the General Theological Seminary. Moore inherited the estate after his mother’s death, and gave a large portion of the land to the Episcopal Diocese for the construction of a seminary – the General Theological Seminary – which remains today. Moore was born on the island of Manhattan in 1779 at Chelsea, the estate belonging to his mother’s family located in the eponymously named current-day neighborhood of Chelsea. Nicholas.” However, he was also an important New Yorker in his own right. Many people know Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) as influential in the popularization of Santa Claus in America with his verse “A Visit from St.

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