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" The churclies of Doylestown and Hazleton, and the Scots Pres- 

 byterian Church of Philadelphia have reason to remember his efforts 

 in their erection or sustentation." 



^' Many persons will recall the lasting benefits they have individu- 

 ally received at his hands/' 



It can be hardly out of place to add that his home was made happy 

 by a wife who was worthy of him, and who survived him only five 

 days. She was a daughter of Professor Robert Patterson — at an early 

 period one of the Secretaries and subsequently President of this So- 

 ciety — and sister of the late Dr. E,. M. Patterson, who also occupied 

 the same honorable posts. She had a mind of uncommon strength 

 and well cultivated, and a heart full of active benevolence. She was 

 one of the originators of the Union Benevolent Society of this city, 

 by whose extensive operations, carried on through many years, great 

 good has been effected among the indigent of Philadelphia. 



"Her personal deportment combined politeness with kindness; 

 her conversation was fluent, dignified, and very attractive. Her piety 

 was more than unaffected, it was of lofty proportions ; indeed she 

 belonged to that class of women of whose writings she was so fond, — 

 Hannah More, Charlotte Elizabeth Touna, and the authoresses of 

 'English Hearts and Hands/ and ^ Haste to the Rescue.' " 



She died on the 24th of February, nearly eighty-four years of age, 

 five days after the decease of her husband ; and thus terminated this 

 remarkable union of about sixty years, ten years beyond the era so 

 rarely reached, and generally known as the golden wedding ; they 

 did not celebrate it, but there is a melancholy pleasure in adding the 

 fact to our record of their lives. 



'' Dr. Moore's life afforded a notable example of recuperative phy- 

 sical power. Three times, at least, he was so ill as to be almost past 

 recovery : at the age of twenty-five, with an apparent consumption ; 

 at sixty-one, with a continued fever; and at seventy-five with in- 

 flammatory rheumatism. He was by no means robust at any period, 

 yet his powers of endurance must have been very great. He habitu- 

 ally labored, with pen and ink, day and night, and was an indefatigable 

 reader; yet he retained his powers of mind and body, the use of sight, 

 hearing, and speech to the last." 



He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society 

 in 1805, at the early age of thirty-one, and died the oldest resident 

 member, on the eighteenth day of February, 1861, in the eighty- 

 eighth year of his age. 



