Moore, Dorothea Lummis (1857-1942)

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Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, September 7, 1901

Florence Gottschalk Taussig to Jane Addams, December 6, 1918

Salomon L. Millard Rosenberg to Jane Addams, October 10, 1929

Hull-House Residents, ca. April 1930

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Birth Date

1857-11-09

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1942-03-04

Birthplace

Portsmouth, Ohio

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Dorothea Lummis Moore lived in Hull-House with her husband and taught physiology there. She also served as Jane Addams' liaison with the police. Moore practiced medicine in Los Angeles after graduating from Boston School of Medicine in 1885, and she later became president of the Los Angeles County Homeopathic Medical Society. Moore was also a poet, and she published her own book of poetry titled "Selvages" in 1923.

Moore married Ernest Moore around 1896. Prior to marrying Ernest, she was secretly married to Charles Lummis. Charles and Moore met when they were both medical students and they loved each other very much, but the demands of their careers caused them to separate in 1891. Moore died in 1942.