Moore married Catherine, daughter of the Chief Justice of Jamaica in 1813 and they had eight children. From 1819, he developed the estate into what is now recognized as Chelsea Village, one of Manhattan's most desirable neighborhoods. The house which Moore enlarged to become a mansion, Chelsea, had been acquired by his grandfather in 1750. It was his friendship with Lorenzo Da Ponte that resurrected the great man's career and led him to introduce Italian Opera to America in 1833. This spirited ballad has, more than anything else, been formative of our modern concept of the secular aspects of Christmas. Moore was a Professor of Greek and Hebrew at Columbia, but to his detriment he was also a vociferous opponent of the liberation of slaves in New York. Nicholas for his children in 1822, supposedly on an excursion by sleigh into Greenwich Village to buy the family's Christmas turkey. According to popular family legend among his distant cousins, the Constables, he first conceived of the idea at Constable Hall which still stands in upstate New York. Nicholas," though his claim is still disputed by scholars who believe it was in fact penned by Harry Livingston. He is best remembered as the author of the now famous poem, "Twas the Night Before Christmas/A Visit from St. Clement Moore, who finished first in his class at Columbia and later produced the first Hebrew lexicon in the US, was mindful of his literary reputation and never intended his Christmas confection to be heard beyond the walls of Chelsea House, as his English-born grandfather had named the manor.
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