Background
Raymond Cecil Moore was born on February 20, 1892 in Roslyn, Washington, United States. He was the son of Bernard Harding and Winnifred (Denney) Moore, and was raised in Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois.
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Raymond Cecil Moore was born on February 20, 1892 in Roslyn, Washington, United States. He was the son of Bernard Harding and Winnifred (Denney) Moore, and was raised in Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Moore attended high schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois. In 1909, he entered Denison University in Granville, Ohio, as a classical languages major, but he later transferred into geology. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1913.
Moore then returned to Chicago, where he earned his doctorate in geology, summa cum laude, from the University of Chicago in 1916.
Moore was hired at The University of Kansas (KU) in 1916 as an assistant professor of geology and to succeed William Henry Twenhofel as state geologist and director of the State Geological Survey of Kansas (KGS). In 1920, he replaced Erasmus Haworth as head of the department and was promoted to full professor—from assistant to full professor - in just three years. He was head or chairman of the department on three occasions for a total of 23 years and state geologist/director of the KGS for a total of 38 years; for 23 of those years he was head of both organizations.
After commencing work in Kansas he made the decision to analyse Permian-Pennsylvanian stratigraphy of the Midcontinent. He studied sedimentary units from Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri, as far as Oklahoma.
During World War II, Moore served as a captain at the Corps of Engineers of the U.S. Army Reserves. After serving in the Army, Moore moved on to teach advanced courses such as “Field Stratigraphy” and “Geologic Development of the World” in the late 1940s.
In 1958, Moore was appointed as a Solen E. Summerfield Distinguished Professor. This distinguished him as one of the leading professors of the university. He would go on to supervise many student theses and dissertations, a large number of them studying Kansas subjects.
In addition, he served as editor of many journals including the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1920–1926), the Journal of Paleontology (1930–1939), the Journal of Sedimentary Petrology (1931–1936), and the Kansas Paleontogical Contributions, which he organized and edited for many years.
(Explains the structure, classification, growth patterns, ...)
1952(Tight Binding, Very Limited Chipping or Tears to Edges, N...)
1961(Book by Moore, Raymond C.)
1964Moore was president of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (1928–1929), the Paleontological Society (1947–1949), the Society of Systematic Zoology (1957–1958), the Geological Society of America (1957–1958), the American Association of State Geologists (1936–1937), and the American Geological Institute (1959–1960).
Moore had a mind like a steel trap and never forgot a person, detail, or place. He could identify a person from his past with complete confidence, recall an event, or locate an outcrop measured decades before; he had an uncanny sense of time and place.
In addition, Moore had a subtle sense of humor that is evident in his writings.
Physical Characteristics: In his later years, ill health confined Moore to his bed, while he continued revisions of the Treatise.
Moore married Georgine Watters in Chicago in 1917. They had one daughter, Marjorie Ann. However, the couple divorced in 1935. The next year, Moore married Lilian Boggs, with whom he had no children.