Benjamin Moore

• 1748-1816
• Served with out distinction as president pro tempore of King's College, 1775-8
• Served as actual president of Columbia (fifth president), 1801-11.
• Accepted rectorship of Trinity Church, New York City, in 1800.
• Was consecrated bishop of New York in 1801
• His duties as bishop were assumed by his assistant John H. Hobart, in 1811 because of Moore's paralysis.

Bibliography: Concise Dictionary of American Biography, p. 782.