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| Born: 23 Nov 1855 Rochester, Monroe Co., NY
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| Married: Abt 1883 Died: 13 Sep 1916 Rochester, Monroe, NY |
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Carolyn Louise Jennings b. 04 Oct 1859
| CHILDREN Mary Pettes Moore d. Bef. 29 Apr 1937 (Cremation)
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 Passport Photo 1918 Mary Pettes Moore originally applied for a passport to travel to the American Embassy in London in 1916. She resided outside the US for 3 months. She applied again for passport in 1918 to drive a motor truck in France. She was doing "relief work on behalf of the Hackett Lowther Unit." |
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Richard was the 5th child and in his youth loved catching rats and bilding bug hospitals. Some of his letters to his mother that he wrote when he was about ten are excerpted on the page for his sister, Abbie Joy Moore.
Richard's father, Dr. Edward Mott Moore, resided at 74 South Fitzhugh St in Rochester, NY. Here is a description of this house. "A unique house was that of Doctor Moore, leading physician and founder of the park system. The ground floor consisted of offices for himself and his two sons, a large waiting room, and the dining room, while upstairs was the large drawing room and with its bay window and two fireplaces with their blazing cannel coal, rallying point for the hospitality of the clan. Adaptability must have been the watchword of the family for under that roof lived, as in a feudal castle of old, ten people of three generations, every one of whom was of strong individuality. Here was the meeting place for the friends of all three generations, and what good times they had."
In 1900 there were ten people living in this house. Edward Mott Moore, 85, Physician. Lucy P. Moore, wife, 80 Mary P. Moore, daughter, 51 Edward Mott Moore Jr., 50, Physician Leontine Moore, daughter-in-law, 35 (mother of 0 children but married 18 years) Clara D. Moore, granddaughter, 16, Lindley M. Moore, son, 48, Manufacturer, Richard M. Moore, son, 43, Physician, Caroline J. Moore, daughter-in-law, 40 and Mary P. Moore, granddaughter, 15.
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Obituary from Buffalo Medical Journal # 72
Richard Mott Moore died Sept. 13, 1916, at his home in Rochester, N. Y.,
after a long illness. He was one of the very foremost physicians of Rochester,
nearly equal in renown to his illustrious father, Edward Mott Moore, a man
widely known and esteemed throughout America.
He was born in Rochester on Nov. 23, 1855. His mother was Lucy Prescott a native
of Vermont. He was educated in private schools in Rochester and in the
University of Rochester. After two years he left however to take up his medical
training in the University of Buffalo at which school his father was Professor
of Surgery, though living and practicing in Rochester. He travelled after the
completion of his course and attended Albany Medical School for a time. He too
became an instructor in the University of Buffalo for a time.
For thirty-five years he practiced in Rochester and for many years was a leader
in professional thought and activity.
RICHARD MOTT MOORE He became highly esteemed and greatly beloved by his
professional brethren, as well as by all those with whom he came into contact.
He was one of the founders of the Academy of Medicine and served as president
for several terms. He was for many years a Censor of the County Medical Society
and a member of the Milk Commission. He was for some time a member of the Board
of Health of Rochester.
Dr. Moore was much interested in general science. He was a member of the
Rochester Academy of Science. He was an entomologist of some note being
particularly interested in the collection of beetles.
He is survived by his wife, one daughter and three brothers, Dr. Edward Mott
Moore, 2nd, Samuel P. Moore, both of Rochester, and Frederick P. Moore of
Pittsburgh.
On the second day following his death there was held a joint meeting of all the
Medical Societies of Rochester, and the following resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, Richard Mott Moore, for more than thirty-five years an active
practitioner of medicine in the City of Rochester, and for nearly the whole of
this time a member in the established medical societies or a charter member of
those founded during his active life, has been removed by death, and
Whereas, The Monroe County Medical Society, the Academy of Medicine, the
Rochester Medical Association, the Pathological Society and the Hospital of
Medical Society are now assembled in special meeting to voice their appreciation
of the life and work of Richard Mott Moore, both as a man and a practitioner of
medicine.
Now, therefore, we, the members of these societies here assembled, believe that
we have lost in Dr. Moore a man of character, ability, integrity and lofty
purpose. As a physician among physicians we wish to testify to his helpfulness
in council, as well as his ready and earnest enlistment in every good cause for
the advancement of high professional character. As a physician to patients we
give evidence of what we knew him to be at the bedside. Simplicity, patience,
kindliness, perseverance, unsparing energy were the dominant traits of his
character in all his dealings with patients, and these he inspired with
something of his courage. Few among us can hope to carry to our patients the
calm and comfort and the solace which his presence brought to those to whom he
ministered. The kindliness, the cheer, the comfort to rich and poor alike, made
him sought after by a large clientele.
Through all the years of his early and more robust manhood he gave to his
patients all that was in him; and later in life, when pain and long suffering
kept him sleepless through many weary nights of vigil, he still gave to his
patients, both in the home and in the hospital, the same service as in his years
of full vigor. Few ever heard him complain. His own ills he kept to himself. The
ills of others, their pain, and the measures for its relief were always nearest
his heart. Even in his last sickness he spoke little of himself. If he had pain
he was like the sturdy Samuel Johnson, when he said, "And if T have pain, I
trust I shall bear it as a man."
"So, as a physician to physicians, as a physician to patients, as well as in
civic affairs, to which he gave no small measure of his busy life, he met
reverses, rebuffs, criticisms, compliments and successes, with the same engaging
smile and gentle demeanor. He had success in practice far above that which is
given to most men, and not until his last sickness did anyone, however poor, go
away unattended.
So, as physician, scientist, friend, brother, husband, father, he fulfilled a
high purpose in the world. Now he is gone and we, his sorrowing survivors, ask
that these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of our societies and conveyed
to his family as a small tribute to one whose memory we shall cherish as long as
we endure in life.