James Vreeland Moore (August 18, 1824– July 8, 1903) was a brevet brigadier general in the New Jersey Militia, and a Captain of the
1st New Jersey Regiment
The 1st New Jersey Regiment was the first organized militia regiment in New Jersey, formed in 1673 in Piscataway "to repel foreign Indians who come down from upper Pennsylvania and western New York (in the summer) to our shores and fill (themse ...
, aka "the Jersey Blues" in the Civil War. He played a major role in the history of
Leonia, New Jersey
Leonia is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 8,937,borough in 1894. He served as council president for two terms, 1894-1896.
Moore served as secretary of the Universalist Sunday School Union in the 1840s and as clerk of the New York Universalist State Convention in the 1850s.
Moore died in Leonia on July 8, 1903, at the age of 79."GEN. J. VREELAND MOORE DEAD.; First Colonel of the Old Second New Jersey Regiment--Long in the National Guard." '' The New York Times'', July 9, 1903. Accessed November 9, 2013. "J. Vreeland Moore died yesterday at Leonia, in his seventy-ninth year. He had been ill about three weeks." In Leonia, the roads Vreeland Avenue and Moore Avenue were named after him.