Zephaniah Swift Moore, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetZephaniah Swift Moore
American academic administrator
Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1770
Place of Birth: Palmer, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 29-Jun-1823
Profession: clergyman
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Zephaniah Swift Moore
- Zephaniah Swift Moore (November 20, 1770 – June 29, 1823) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator.
- He taught at Dartmouth College during the early 1810s and had a house built in Hanover, New Hampshire, that now serves as Dartmouth's Blunt Alumni Center.
- He served as the President of Williams College between 1815 and 1821 and the first President of Amherst College between 1821 and 1823.
- He is most famous for leaving Williams in order to found Amherst, taking some of the faculty and 15 students with him.
- The rumor that Williams College library books were also taken to Amherst College was declared false in 1995 by Williams College President Harry C.
- Payne.Moore died two years after Amherst was founded, and was succeeded by Heman Humphrey, a trustee of Williams College.
- Moore's departure from Williams College established the foundation for the intense Williams–Amherst rivalry that persists to the present.
- To this day, he is regarded with a measure of derision on the Williams campus.
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