Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1857, Walter William Moore became a prominent Presbyterian clergyman and educator. NCpedia identifies him as a native of Charlotte and notes his long career in the church and in theological education.

Moore is especially remembered for his work at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, where he served as a professor and later as its first president after the school moved to Richmond. Union Presbyterian Seminary credits him with playing an important role in that relocation and in preparing students to engage with the challenges of modern urban life.

He was also a prolific author and editor. Catalog and library records show works including Appreciations and Historical Addresses and other historical and religious writings, and a later biography described him as the seminary's "second founder and first president," a sign of the influence he had on the institution he served.