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Edwards, and another a niece of his only
son, Jonathan Edwards.
Mr. Moore was educated ac the Ber-
lin Academy, and later taught in the
Normal School, when it was first estab-
lished in New Britain. At the age of
twenty-two, he went to New York City
and studied drawing and painting under
Daniel Huntington and Thomas Seir
Cummings. The latter was one of the
founders and the first president of the
National Academy of Design, and the
former was later its president. Upon returning
home from his studies, Mr.
Moore assisted his father, who had many
and varied interests and among other
duties acted as station agent at Berlin for
one year when the railroad was first built.
Every leisure moment, however, was
used to continue his work in painting.
When Daguerre's discovery came to
America, he was among the first to try
the process and did some beautiful work
which is still in existence. At the time of
the Civil War, many soldiers camped in
Pope Park in Hartford, and Mr. Moore
made pictures of them singly and in
groups, which were sent to relatives and
friends, and in many instances were the
only likenesses of the loved ones which
they had. Many of these men never re-
turned home, and the pictures aided
somewhat in allaying the grief of their
families. Mr. Moore first studied por-
trait painting, but after a few years de-
termined to make landscape painting his
life work. For many years he spent part
of every summer on Lake George, New
York, and during his visits there trans-
ferred to the canvas sunsets, the beautiful
waters of the lake, and the atmos-
phere that is found only in that region.
While he traveled elsewhere, Lake
George, Lake Mohonk, the Berkshires.
and his own Connecticut Valley were the
spots he loved best to paint. Mr. Moore
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was a great lover of music, he had a true
artist's appreciation of it, and was also
a reader of the best literature. Before the
close of the Civil War, he was instrumen-
tal in raising funds to build the first soldiers'
monument in the North, in memory
of the Civil War heroes, and designed the
simple shaft which stands in Kensington.
In 1853, he married Anna Maria Pickett,
daughter of Alanson Jaspar Pickett, of
that portion of Litchfield now called Morris.
Their children were : Edwin Augus-
Ellen Mindwell, of
Ethelbert Allen, of whom
and Alanson Jaspar Pickett, who
tus, of whom further ;
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died January 25, 1903.
Edwin Augustus Moore was born August
25, 1858, in Kensington, and has
devoted his entire life to the profession
of painter. He studied many years in
New York and abroad, and some of the
work he has done has probably not been
excelled in this country. His tastes, like
those of his father, have led him to the
best in music and literature.
Ellen Mindwell Moore was born December
4, 1862. She has also studied art
for many years in New York and Boston,
and is well known as a miniature painter.
Ethelbert Allen Moore was born November
30, 1864, in Kensington. He
obtained his early education in the,
schools of Kensington. He then entered
the West Middle Grammar, and later the
Hartford High School, graduating in
1885. His business life began with The
Bradley and Hubbard Manufacturing
Company, of Meriden, where he remained
for two years. The succeeding two years
were spent in studying and teaching at
Watertown, Connecticut, where for one
year Mr. Moore was principal of the Central
School. In 1889 he entered the em-
ploy of The Stanley Works, of New Bri-
tain, and was promoted from one position
to another, until in 1918 he was elected