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Moore (EDWARD CALDWELL American)

EDWARD CALDWELL, American theologian; born in West Chester, Pa., 1857; studied in Germany.

Ordained Presbyterian minister in 1884, serving in Yonkers, N. Y. (1886-1889), and Providence, R. I. (1889-1901). Became Parkman professor of theology and Plummer professor of Christian morals at Harvard in 1901. He has lectured in most of the big universities in this country and England, and is now President of American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions.

MOORE Columbia University and a distinguished publicist and writer on international law; born Dec. 3, 1860, at Smyrna, Del., he was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. He entered the State Department as a law clerk in 1885, and was appointed Third Assistant Secretary of State in 1886. While he continued in the public service a great part of his time, he was after 1891 professor of international law at Columbia. In 1898 during the Spanish- American War he was for a time Acting Secretary of State, and was counsel to the American Peace Commission which drew up the treaty with Spain. From 1899 he has represented the United States on many important diplomatic enterprises. In 1913 he became counselor to the State Department, but resigned in 1914 to resume his work at Columbia. He has published a number of authoritative treatises on his subject, the largest being his "Digest of International Law" (8 vols., 1906).