Clement Clarke Moore
Clement Clarke Moore 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.
He is buried at Trinity Church-yard, near fellow Columbian Alexander Hamilton.
