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| Edward Mott Moore Jr | ||
| Born: 25 Aug 1850 Windsor, VT |
 Edward Mott Moore, Jr photo found in "Legend of a Family" by The Buell-Powers-Durant Family Plot Kali Cohn |
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Married 1st Clara Amelia Durand 2nd: Leontine Culver in April 1886
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| Died: 5 Apr 1918 Rochester, Monroe Co., NY |
"Dr Edward Mott Moore passed away early yesterday morning at his
home, No. 100 Troup street. He had been ill for several years.
He was a son of Dr. Edward Mott Moore, who was known as 'father of the
Rochester Park System.' The Infants' Summer Hospital will always stand out as a memorial to Dr. Moore, having been founded by him in July, 1886. He was its chief physician until 1910. He was a noted surgeon and for many years was on the staff of St. Mary's Hospital. Dr. Moore was born at Windsor, VT., on August 25, 1850. He married Miss Clara Durand, who died in 1884. Later he married Miss Leontine Culver. Dr. Moore was a graduate of the University of Rochester with the class of 1871. He obtained his degree from the Buffalo Medical School and then became associated with his father. He practiced medicine for many years with his brother, the late Dr. Richard M. Moore, in the old family homestead, in Fitzhugh street south. He was forced to give up his profession some time ago because of his ill health. Dr. Moore was a member of the American Medical Association, New York State Medical Society, Monroe County Medical Association, Rochester Academy of Medicine, Rochester Archaeological Society, and the Genesee Valley Club. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Edward Mott Culver Moore; a daughter, Miss Durand Moore, two brother, Samuel Moore, of this city, and Frederick Moore, of Pennsylvania, and a sister. The funeral will take place at 11 o'clock on Monday morning in Mount Hope Chapel." |
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| Buried: Mt Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe Co., NY Mt Hope Cemetery Records "1918 Apr 8 E Mott Moore age 67 7 mo 9 dys Cerebral Hemorrhage Living on Troup St. at time of death," |
 Find A Grave Memorial # 7728170 |
FATHER
MOTHER
WIFE
Clara Amelia Durand b. abt 12 Sept 1858 (dates taken from cemetery inscriptions)
d. 12 Feb 1884 age 25 yrs 5 mo of Peritonitis
Leontine Culver b. 1865 (dates taken from cemetery inscriptions)
d. bef 13 Apr 1933 age 67 yrs 9 mo 22 days
CHILDREN with Clara Amelia Durand
1. Lydia Jeanette Moore b. Sept 1882 d. 03 Feb 1886
In the year 1889, Lydia died from diphtheria at the mere age of three years and four months.
| 2. Clara A Durand Moore b. 1884 Clara Durand Moore, lost her mother a few days after her birth in 1884. At Clara’s death in May of 1980, her ashes were placed with her mother, of whom she knew little, in the Powers plot rather than with the tomb of her father in the Moore plot, after having been transported from Orange County, California (Interment). |
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Edward Mott Moore, Jr was the oldest son and second child of Edward Mott Moore and Lucy Richards. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1871 and then received his MD in Buffalo, starting his medical practice in 1874. He had an office in his father's home, as did his brother, Richard, later in 1878, but each doctor had his own office and his own patients. Dr. Edward Mott Moore, Jr was usually called Dr. Mott to distinguish him from his father, and Dr. Richard Mott Moore, was usually called Dr. Richard.
Edward lived with his parents in the house at 63 S Fitzhugh until he married (abt 1881). He was still living with his parents in the 1881 City Directory for Rochester, but in the 1882 City Directory he was living at 12 Centre Park, Rochester, the home of his father-in-law, Frederick L. Durand.
He and his wife, Clara Durand Moore, had two daughters. Clara, his wife, died in 1884 shortly after the birth of their second daughter and he moved back in with his parents with the two little girls. And then in 1886 their oldest daughter, Lydia, tragically died of diphtheria when she was only three years old. He and his surviving daughter, Clara, remained in his parents home until his death. Two years after his daughters death, he started the Infant’s Summer Hospital, where he served as chief physician until 1910.
Edward married his second wife, Leontine Culver, in April of 1886, two months after the death of his little daughter. In the 1908 and 1918 Dau's Blue Book for Rochester, their summer residence is listed as "Charlotte, N.Y." which was the location of the Infant's Summer Hospital. Leontine Culver Moore outlived him.
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In 1900 Edward was a physician living and working alongside his father, Edward Mott Moore Sr., and his brother, Richard Mott Moore. See description of house on page for Richard Mott Moore
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From the Bound Volume “Infants’ Summer Hospital April 7, 1891 to April 6,
1914."
Entry date “Rochester NY June 10 1913”
“Dr. Edward M. Moore, father of Dr. Edward Mott Moore, Jr. formed the Infants’ Summer Hospital and for the first two or three years visited the infants at the hospital daily. Dr. Edward Moore, Jr. began to visit the hospital when his father's health failed.” “He said in his address as reported in the Buffalo Express of May 17 1892: ‘I have thought of it for years and years as we have mourned at the loss of life among little children. I was in doubt and fear for many years until the summer of 1887 brought with its intense heat a frightful death rate from summer complaint. With no promise of money, I and a few friends set out to see what we could do. We put up a tent on the shore of Lake Ontario.” I make this record in simple justice to that “Grand Old Man,” who loved to do good without seeking for praise or honor. " - Arthur S. Hamilton
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"Legend of a Family" by The Buell-Powers-Durant Family Plot
The son of nationally renowned Dr. Edward Mott Moore Sr., E. M. Moore Jr. was a predominant Rochester physician and surgeon. A graduate of the University of Rochester, he was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and obtained his A.B. degree. After receiving his M. D. in Buffalo, Moore returned to Rochester to practice medicine in 1874 (General Catalogue 51). Two years after Lydia’s death, he established the Infant’s Summer Hospital, where he served as chief physician until 1910. Throughout his life, he also acted as a surgeon at St. Mary’s Hospital, while practicing medicine “for many years with his brother, in the old family homestead in Fitzhugh Street South.” Ironically, Moore provided the autopsy for his uncle-in-law, Charles J. Powers in 1882. After E. M. Moore Jr.’s death in 1918, he was buried in the Moore family plot with his second wife in another section of Mount Hope Cemetery (Interment).
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The Shield, Volume 17
1. By Theta Delta Chi
University of Rochester
Brother Briggs' Whilom classmate, Edward Mott Moore, Jr., (Chi, '71), eldest
son of the distinguished surgeon and scholar, Edward Mott Moore, M.D., LL.D.,
President of the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester, President of
the Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Rochester, and ex-President of
the Buffalo Medical College, is become the foremost medical expert in the county
and commands never less than a fee of $100 per diem for his testimony at court.
We are a simple and confiding community up here. Brother Moore has but to fix
his price and we take him at his own high estimate spot cash every time, dear
reader. The writer was defending an Italian (innocent, of course) under
indictment for the alleged murder by a pistol shot of another Italian last
summer, to encounter among the State's witnesses Dr. Moore, Jr., son of the
manifold President who in his prime was among the foremost authorities on
surgery in America. The junior Moore, our frater, having inherited all of his
science and art in medicine legitimately, aliunde medical bibliography, was
hostile to the writer's defense, on the subject of gun-shot wounds and their
treatment. It should be explained now that the writer, with a fine corps of
medical experts who were swearing good and hard, had tried to establish at this
trial that not the defendant's bullet, but the Aesculapians who had treated the
wound, killed the shot Italian. Then it should also be stated that Dr. Moore,
Jr., had been the writer's classmate during his freshman year (1866). Yet
Brother Moore and the writer collided ferociously more than once during the
trial. There were stormy scenes at such times. But peace was restored when the
doctor, still championing the prosecution against the writer, called the
lawyer's attention to the fact that both had once bolted a class recitation and
"caught it" from "Prex" and the faculty, a circumstance aged over 34 year past.
O allusion reminiscent, what a mellower of the heart thou art! And the innocent
Italian was saved, for the jury refused to convict him of murder after the awful
disclosure by Dr. Moore, Jr., against himself. Could it have been because of
that disclosure? The intellectual vagaries of petty jurors are passing all
conjecture. But the jury's generosity never restored to life the other and
killed Italian—of course. That one remained a dead Roman—stiff and stark—-vet in
such condition, ex-fruit vender though he had been, equal to Julius Caesar prone
at the foot of Pompey's pillar—just as he had been shot by the writer's
impeccable client under the bloodthirsty theory of the district attorney in the
case. Concerning him as concerning the greater Roman one might exclaim: "Fate is
immutable." (Sophocles, of Saugerties.) The cited line later criticism puts in
doubt; and charges to be an interpolation by unknown revisers of the original
text fresh from bovine Boeotia. The writer is still Greek enough to be certain
that he could "spot" the miscreants if he had them pointed out to him. Not even
a police detective now-a-days will do more.
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