Name Nathaniel Moore | Succeeded by Charles King Books Ancient mineralogy | |
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Born December 25, 1782Newton, Illinois ( 1782-12-25 ) Died 1872, Hudson, New York, United States | ||
Nathaniel Fish Moore (December 25, 1782 – April 27, 1872) was the eighth president of Columbia College; he had earlier been a lawyer and served on the faculty. He was the nephew of the college's former president Benjamin Moore.
In 1820, Moore began his career at Columbia College as a professor of Greek and Latin. He was appointed the first full-time Librarian of the College in 1838. Four years later, Moore was elected the eighth president of the college, resigning under unremarkable circumstances in 1849.
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