She was instrumental in the formation of a humane society which was brought about through her observations of the neglect and cruelty to the children of the poor, and Mexican families, visited in her practice; and the establishment of the California system of juvenile courts.

[1] Moore wrote for several prominent newspapers and magazines, including Puck, Judge, Life, Women's Cycle, San Francisco Argonaut, and The Californian, as well as various American medical journals.

[5] Moore entered the Portsmouth Female College, and at the age of sixteen, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and was the salutatorian of her class.

Charles Lummis had left Harvard due to poor grades and went to work for her parents in the Scioto River area of Ohio.

She contributed to Kate Field's Washington, Puck, Judge, Life, Woman's Cycle, the Home-Maker, the San Francisco Argonaut and The Californian.

She was a member of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association, and contributed many important papers to the various medical journals of standing in the United States.

[10] In her vacation tours, Moore visited many of the Native American pueblos in New Mexico, and made a collection of arrowheads, Navajo silver and blankets, Aconia pottery, baskets and other curios of that area.

Her letters are held in the Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore Collection at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.