What if you wrote a poem for
your children and they LOVED it? That would be really cool and very
touching! But, what if that poem somehow got published into the
newspaper and everyone, for generations on, LOVED it? Now that would
be awesome!
That is what it was like
for Clement Clark Moore. He wrote the poem “A Visit From St.
Nicholas”. You know it, “Twas the night before Christmas and all
through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
Yep, he was just reading it to his kids on Christmas Eve and the next
thing he knew it was published everywhere and everyone knew it.
Clement was born in New
York City and was the only child of Reverend Benjamin Moore and
Charity Clarke Moore. He was homeschool by his father until he went
to Columbia College. When he graduated College in 1823 he became a
professor or oriental and greek literature until he retired in 1850.
While he was still teaching he married 19 year old Catharine
Elizabeth Taylor and together they had nine children.
Clement died on July 10,
1863 and although “A Visit from St. Nicholas” was the only
memorable poem that he wrote, he himself is remembered and a very
important part in the tradition of Christmas.
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