. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. hools and at a boarding school near WestChester, Pennsylvania, conducted by Joseph the age of nineteen he was converted to thePresbyterian faith, and subsequently deciding toenter the ministry he began his studies at theHoward Academy, Rockville, under the directionof Professor James McCune. He was admitted toPrinceton as an advanced student in 1856 and tookhis Bachelors degree in 1858, then entering th
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. hools and at a boarding school near WestChester, Pennsylvania, conducted by Joseph the age of nineteen he was converted to thePresbyterian faith, and subsequently deciding toenter the ministry he began his studies at theHoward Academy, Rockville, under the directionof Professor James McCune. He was admitted toPrinceton as an advanced student in 1856 and tookhis Bachelors degree in 1858, then entering the Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he wasgraduated in 1861. With the exception of the timeoccupied as Chaplain of the Ninety-seventh Regi-ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, during the CivilWar, he was Pastor of the Lower BrandywinePresbyterian Church at Centreville, Delaware, fromthe spring of 1861 to the autumn of r872, when hewent south as a missionary, spending a year inMississippi. For the succeeding ten years he pre-sided over the church in McVeytown, left this Pastorate in 1883 to accept a call to thechurch at Kennett Square, where he remained until. D. W. MOORE 1886 and for the next two years labored as amissionary in Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsyl-vania. In 1888 he was installed Pastor of theSecond Presbyterian Church, Norristown, attachedto the North Philadelphia Presbytery and nowknown as the First Presbyterian Church, Bridgeport,of which he remained in charge until his Moore labored diligently and successfully bothas Pastor and missionary, and as Chaplain at the frontin the war he won the confidence and respect ofofficers and men. His first wife, whom he marriedDecember 26, i860, was Elizabeth Hoogland ofNew Jersey, and he was again married in 1879 toBertha Longaker, of Norristown, Pennsyh^ania. Hehas one sun by his first marriage, William Ellsworth 46 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS Moore. He died suddenly of heart disease at hishome ill
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