John Weeks Moore

He was a son of Jacob Bailey Moore. He was educated at Concord High School and Plymouth Academy, became a printer, and was connected with several journals. In 1834 he established the first musical newspaper in New Hampshire, and he afterward edited The World of Music, a quarto, The Musical Library, a folio, and the Daily News.

• Vocal and Instrumental Instructor (Bellows Falls, Vt., 1843)
• Sacred Minstrel (1848)
• Complete Encyclopædia of Music, Elementary, Technical, Historical, Biographical, Vocal, and Instrumental (1854)
• American Collection of Instrumental Music (1856)
• Star Collection of Instrumental Music (1858)
• Appendix to Encyclopedia of Instrumental Music (Manchester, N. H., 1858)
• Musical Record (5 vols., 1867–70)
• Songs and Song-Writers of America (200 numbers, 1859–80)
• Historical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous Gatherings relative to Printers, Printing, Publishing of Books, Newspapers, Magazines, and other Literary Productions from 1820 to 1886 (1886), a second volume was in preparation in 1888

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Moore, Jacob Bailey" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

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