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Clement Clarke Moore

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As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.


— Clement Clarke Moore


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T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.


— Clement Clarke Moore


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He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.


— Clement Clarke Moore


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His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.


— Clement Clarke Moore


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Did you know about Clement Clarke Moore?

He was a graduate of Columbia College (1798) where he earned both his B. Wells dividing it up into lots along Ninth Avenue and selling them to well-heeled New Yorkers. Clement Clarke Moore's wife Catharine Elizabeth Taylor was of English and Dutch descent being a direct descendant of the Van Cortlandt family once the major landholders in the lower Hudson Valley of New York.

Clement Clarke Moore (July 15 1779 – July 10 1863) was a Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Located on land donated by the "Bard of Chelsea" himself the seminary still stands today on Ninth Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets in an area known as Chelsea Square.

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