Edward Mott Moore

Edward Mott Moore was an American surgeon who lived from 1814 to 1902. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, to a Quaker and Huguenot family of abolitionists and educators, he took his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1838 and made his permanent home in Rochester, New York. With the title of professor of surgery he lectured at medical colleges in Vermont, Massachusetts, Ohio and Buffalo, the last from 1859 to 1883. He was a founder and president of the Medical Society of the State of New York in 1874, and later president of the American Surgical Association in 1883 and of the American Medical Association in 1890. One type of fracture of the lower end of the radius, with dislocation of the head of the ulna, is called Moore's fracture after him. Outside medicine he served for many years as president of the board of trustees of the University of Rochester and became the first president of the Rochester Park Commission, which is why he is remembered as the father of the Rochester park system.