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OBITUARY NOTICE 



OF 



DR. SAMUEL MOORE 



READ BY PRANKLIN PEALE, 



Before the American Philosophical Society, March 15, ISCl. 



It has been justly said of notices of deceased members, and gene- 

 rally of obituary communications, that they were invariably eulogies, 

 rather than candid statements of the lives and characters of those 

 who have departed from among us. There will be no apology in 

 the present instance for not departing from usage; the most exact, 

 minute, and candid statement can take no other form than that of an 

 eulogium. He whose life and character we are to record was so 

 eminent in all that constitutes the perfect man, that no deviation 

 from the direct path, in the course of a Christian gentleman, or 

 failure in the highest duties, can be found to cast a shadow on his 

 path, throughout a long life of earnest industry and ardent zeal in 

 all the multifarious situations and occupations of his career. 



Dr. Samuel Moore had a varied life in the occupations to which he 

 applied himself, as well as in the conditions of his health and fortunes. 



For the last quarter of a century his business energy and services 

 were devoted to the Hazleton Coal Company, of which he was the 

 originator and most active officer, presiding over its affairs from the 

 commencement until within a few hours of the close of his life. 



The appreciation of his services and character in this relation is 

 fully exemplified by the proceedings which took place at the annual 

 meeting of stockholders, soon after his decease, and published by 

 their order, a copy of which is presented to the Society. 



As a Director of the Mint of the United States his career was 

 distinguished by foresight and enterprise, unequalled in the previous 

 history of that institution ; he was appointed to the office in 1824, by 

 President Monroe, and continued through the terms of Presidents 

 Adams and Jackson, resigning his commission in 1835. 



