MOOAR, George, educator, born in Andover, Massachusetts, 27 May 1830. He was graduated at Williams in 1851, and at Andover theological seminary in 1855. He was pastor at Andover in 1855-'61, at Oakland, California, in 1861-'72 and since 1874, and has been professor of systematic theology and church history in Pacific theological seminary, Oakland, since 1870. He was one of the commission of twenty-five appointed by the national council of Congregational churches to prepare a church creed and catechism in 1881-'4. He has been associate editor of "The Pacific" since 1863, and is the author of "Historical Manual of the South Church, Andover" (Andover, 1859) ; "Handbook of the Congregational Churches of California" (San Francisco, 1863); " The Religion of Loyalty" (Oakland, 1865) ; and "The Prominent Characteristics of the Congregational Churches" (San Francisco, 1866).