Background
Moore, Barrington was born on September 25, 1883 in Ossining, New York, United States. Son of Clement Clarke and Laura M. (Williams) Moore.
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Barrington Moore
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He attended Craigie"s School and Morristown School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey before graduating from Saint Mark"s School in Southboro, Massachusetts in 1902. Moore then completed his bachelor"s degree at Yale University in 1906 and his master"s of forestry degree at Yale"s School of Forestry in 1908.
Career
He served as the fourth president of the Ecological Society of America and as the first editor-in-chief of its journal, Ecology. Moore chaired the Society of American Foresters" (SAF) Committee on Forest Policy, served as editor-in-chief of its Journal of Forestry, and represented the society on the National Research Council"s biology division. Moore also served as secretary of the Council on National Parks, Forests, and Wildlife and as associate curator of woods and forestry at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Moore was born on September 25, 1883.
While studying at Yale, Moore played on the football and track and field teams, and he joined, Alpha Delta Phi, a fraternity. During the summer following his junior year at Yale, Moore worked as a student assistant for the United States. Forest Service in North Carolina.
He later served on the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association of Yale"s School of Forestry. Serving as captain of engineers, Moore helped organize a force of 18,000 troops to supply materials in advance of the arrival of Allied forces.
Supplementing lumber and other wooden materials from France, he made acquisitions from Great Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian nations.
Moore was a great-grandson of Clement Clarke Moore, author of the poem Twas the Night Before Christmas. The couple had two children: sociologist Barrington, Junior. and Peter Van Cortlandt Moore. Moore and Hennen separated in 1927.
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Served as captain of Engineers, United States of America, with American Expeditionary Forces in France, June 1917-September 1918. Member National Research Council, 1919-1922. Member of board of managers New York Botanical Garden, 1922-1930.
Fellow New York Academy Sciences.
Member Society American Foresters (chairman Washington section, 1929-1930). Member Ecological Society America (president 1919-1920), Botanical Society America, Torrey Botanical.
Club, American Geography Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science Chevalier Chevalier de la Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur’Honneur’Honneur (France), 1919. Clubs: Boone and Crockett, Century, Yale (New York).
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Republican