Clara Jessup Moore
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Clara Jessup Moore (1824-99) was an American philanthropist and writer, born in Philadelphia, Pa. She organized in Philadelphia a hospital relief committee during the Civil War and assisted in the foundation of the Temperance Home for Children. After the death of her husband in 1878 she spent much of her time in London where she died.
She published:
- Miscellaneous Poems (1875)
- On Dangerous Ground (1876), a romance
- Sensible Etiquette (1878)
- Ether the True Protoplasm (1885)
- Social Ethics and Social Duties (1892)
The book on ether was written because she believed that ether could account for the Keeley motor, to whose projector she gave liberally in order that he might develop his idea.
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
