Christmas America. In America, interest in Christmas had been revived in the 1820s by several short stories by Washington Irving which appear in his "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." and "Old Christmas". Irving's stories depicted harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities he experienced while staying in Aston Hall, Birmingham, England, that had largely been abandoned, and he used the tract "Vindication of Christmas" (1652) of Old English Christmas traditions, that he had transcribed into his journal as a format for his stories. In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (popularly known by its first
Nicholas G. Moore Nicholas G. Moore Nicholas G. Moore is a director at Wells Fargo & Company and retired chairman and chief executive officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Moore received his BS degree in accounting from St. Mary's College of California and his JD degree from University of California Hastings College of the Law. He entered Coopers & Lybrand in 1968 as an accountant and was admitted to the partnership in 1974. In 1981 he was named managing partner. He was named chairman and chief executive officer of Coopers & Lybrand LLP in October 1994. Upon the merger with Price Waterhouse in July 1998, Moore