Reginald Moore, a nephew of Queen Elizabeth, was Secretary of State and Lord Chief Justice of England under her and was by King James raised to the peerage and created Earl of Drogheda.

His brother came to the colony of New York under a large land grant from Charles II, and, marrying the sister of Governor Richard Nicolls, established the family in America.

She aroused the enmity of those devoted to the liquor interest, and circumstances rendered it expedient that she should prosecute a leading and influential man for libelous charges in reference to the work.

She was ably defended through a wearisome and long-drawn trial by leading lawyers, who, however, had no sympathy with any temperance move, but, with all the odds heavily against her, she won her case.

She was one of the first women to deal with the difficulties of travel in the Territories, enduring long and wearisome journeys on railroad lines, and going the second time west of the Sierra Nevada.

During the years 1885–95, she estimated that she had traveled approximately 150,000 miles (240,000 km), visiting every State and Territory of the U.S., and nearly all of the provinces of Canada, and had delivered about 3,200 lectures in the interests of temperance and woman suffrage.

She was nominated on a straight Prohibition ticket, endorsed by the Populists, and won over two male candidates by a large majority in an intensely Republican ward.

[2] In 1896, Moore and Laura Gregg Cannon of Kansas, visited 18 towns and cities in the interest of the Ohio State Woman Suffrage Association and formed numerous organizations.

[7] In 1931, for their role in suffrage and peace advocacy, Carrie Chapman Catt shared the prize money from her Pictorial Review Achievement Award with Moore and nine other women.