Moore, Martin

Moore, Martin a Congregational minister of some note as a religious journalist, was born at Sterling, Massachusetts, April 22, 1790; was educated at Brown University, where he graduated in 1810; and for nearly thirty years served in the ministry at Natick, Massachusetts, and afterwards at Cohasset; and then was for some twenty years editor of the Boston Recorder. He was also from 1861 to 1866 vice-president of the "New England Historical and Genealogical Society." Moore died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 12, 1866. — He wrote Life of John Eliot (1842): — Hist. of Natick (1817). See Drake, Dict. of Amer. Biog. s.v.