Nathaniel Fish Moore

At Columbia, Nathaniel Fish Moore was a member of the Philolexian Society. He was promoted to MA in 1805. • Illustration — A photograph of Moore from 1860 In 1817, Moore began his career at Columbia College as an adjunct professor and in 1820 was named a professor of Greek and Latin. In 1830 became titled the Jay Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. Moore resigned his professorship in 1835 to travel to Europe and the Holy Land, and was appointed as the first full-time Librarian of the College in 1838 upon his return. Four years later, in 1842, Moore was elected the eighth president of the college, resigning under unremarkable circumstances in 1849. After visiting the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, he became interested in photography, and was one of the first amateur photographers in New York City. He was reportedly so interested in his new hobby “that he frequently came to dinner wearing cotton gloves, because his hands were so stained with photographic chemicals.”

• Name — Nathaniel Fish Moore • Title — 8th President of Columbia University • Term Start — 1842 • Term End — 1849 • Predecessor — William Alexander Duer • Successor — Charles King • Born — 25 December 1782 • Died — 27 April 1872 • Place of death — Hudson, New York • Alma Mater — Columbia University

Nathaniel Fish Moore is recorded with the occupation photographer. Recorded as photographer, teacher and librarian.