Veranus Alva Moore (April 13, 1859 – February 11, 1931) was an American academic, bacteriologist, and pathologist. He was a founding faculty member and department chair of the New York State Veterinary College, now the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. He was dean of the college for 21 years and became a national leader in veterinary science. He was also the superintendent of Memorial Hospital in Ithaca, New York. He was also a founder and first president of Phi Zeta honor society for veterinary medicine.
Early life
Moore was born in Hounsfield, New York on April 13, 1859. He then taught school in Mexico for a year.
When the New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York opened September 1896, Moore was one of its founding faculty members. Moore was also a strong advocate of rabies legislation. He also served as a faculty representative on Cornell University's board of trustees from 1926 to 1929. He then became the superintendent of Ithaca Memorial Hospital, after having served as one of its trustees from January 1918 until late 1929. While he was dean at veterinary school, he helped the hospital establish a department of pathology and bacteriology. and an honorary Doctor of Science from Syracuse University in 1919.
He was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, England, in January 1931. The biographical sketch was written by John R. Moher, chief of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Husbandry in Washington, D.C. He was master of the Hobasco Lodge No. 761 of the Free and Accepted Masons, district deputy of the Cayuga-Tompkins Masonic District, and belonged to Eagle Chapter 58 of the Royal Arch Masons; St. Augustine Commandry No. 38 of the Knights Templar; and the Kalurah Temple of the Shrine.