The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-02-11
Death OF DIR. j. l.. Moore.

| DI. j Jnoh Fnris Moore who. - stated
| i'll our Last issue. was stricken with con
Sestion of the brain while attending
religions Servicea 1t the Tvtl lh Preaby-
terrain Church, in Baltimore, died at ) .45
O'Clock at his residense on Friday even.
ing of last week. HIS condition was
critical from the outset, and he never
entirely regained consciousness. For a
little while he improved, and his family
and ply sicians hoped that he might sur
| viva the attack.
DIR. Moore was born at Port Penn,
Newcastle county. D2l., February 20
1926 and would have been Sixty-two
years OF age on the 21$t Of Fehru lry
Ills boyhood was spent at Elgi ton. and
e was educated at the academy. He
learned the drug business uuier DR..
Parker in Elllton. He removed to Bati-
more in 1912, ard entered the pharma-
| ceutical establishment % the late Dr.
George w. Andrews. He remained with
DR.. Andrews six years. making himself
thoroughly familiar with the business,
and graduated from the Mary land Col
lege of Pharmacy i'll 1917. He remained
with DIR. Andrews two Years. &ud vent
to WILMINGTON, Del, where he estab-
lished himself in the drug business, in
which lie continued for about three years.
He also studied medicine while there.
and graduated with honor at the Jetfer-
son Medical College, Philadelphia, in
iS49. He then returned TO Baltimore
of Howard and Madison streets, in con-
nectioi- with J X. b. Emory, the Iirm
being Moore & Emory. The partnership
was dissolved iii 1888. On the reorgani-
cation Oh the Maryland College of Pnar-
macy in 1856, DIR. Moore was Que of its
corporators and was its first secret ary.
arch II, 1861, he was elected professor
of pharmacy i'll. the same institution,
which position he held up to the time of
his death. GA the resignation of the
late Dr. George w. Andrews as president
VI bhO SoiiSSsS puhudiy II, io'-s LII.
Moore was elected as his successor, and
held the position for three years. He was
long member of the American Phar
maceutIcal Association, and served as its
president in 1863 and 1864. He served
twice on the committee for the revision
of the National Pharmacop9a." DIR.
Morris father was DIR. Jacob Moore, of
New Castle county, Delaware, and his
grandfather, William Moore, was ma
tive of the same county. His great
grandfather came from Derry, Ireland.
His mother WAS Sarah Sharp Faris,
daughter OF Jacob Faris, OF Pencader
Hundred, New Castle county, Del, and
grand daughter of William Faris, who
came to America from England, and was
the first English settler on what was
known as the Welsh Tract" in New
Castle county. In December, 1858, DR..
Moore married Miss Mary Elizabeth Rice,
daughter OF William Rice, a farmer of
New Castle county. They had three
children, OF whom Clarence Faris is the
only one now living. Mrs. Moore died in
1866. His brother, Rev. William E.
Moore, is a prominent member of the
Presbyterian Church at Columbus, Ohio.
He was delegate to the Pan Presby-
teriau Council at Edinburgh, in 1877.
DE-. Moore has always taken an active
part in public affairs. L. 1868 he was
elected to tue second branch of the Bal
tmore city council for the Eleventh and
Twelfth Wards aud served for two years.
While there he was chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee. Mayor
Cha mau appointed him as one of the
visitors to the city Jail and subsequently
to Bayxiew, and he was selected as chair
man of the board of visitors TO the latter
place. DIR. Moore was a Republican,, but
was frequently solicited by citizens of
both parties to run for the City Council
again. He consented only once, few
years ago. but was defeated. His name
was prominently associated with the
Baltimore poStmastership under Presi-
dent Hayes, aud was strongly recon-
mended by citizens of Maryland and
Ohio. He was a prominent and active
mem Der OF the Presbyterian Church, OF
which lie WIS all elder, and was foremost
in every important step in church work.
He had represented the church in four
sessions OF the General Assembly, and
was deeply interested in the project for
the reunion of the Northern and South
ern bra nches.