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'''Clement Clarke Moore''' [[Columbia College|CC]] [[1798]] [[MA]] [[?]] is best known for writing ''A Visit from St. Nicholas'' ("Twas the Night Before Christmas...")

Moore eventually became a professor of Oriental and Greek literature at the college, and a theologian at General Seminary.

His Manhattan estate was located in, and gave its name to, the current neighborhood of [[Chelsea]]. A Clement Clarke Moore park now exists there, in his honor. 

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