NNP

Samuel Moore

Biography

Born at Deerfield, Cumberland County, New Jersey. Married Mary Padgett Patterson, daughter of Robert Patterson. Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1791. Instructor at the University 1792 to 1794. Studied medicine and practiced in Dublin, Pennsylvania, and Greenwich, New Jersey. For several years he was a trader in the East Indies. Later he operated saw mills and a woolen factory in Pennsylvania.

Elected to U. S. House of Representatives and served October 13, 1818, to May 20, 1822.

Appointed Director of the Mint to succeed Robert Patterson and served July 15, 1824, to July 1, 1835. He was responsible for the production of Class I 1804 dollars struck in 1834. He was succeeded by his brother-in-law Robert Maskell Patterson.

Moore served on the Assay Commission of 1851. President of Hazelton Coal Co until his death in 1861. He died in Philadelphia.

bio: BDC; Evans; NCAB 12; TCBDA; WWWA-H