[1] Moore served as a state judge in the Common Pleas Court and as a prosecuting attorney in Sioux City, Iowa.

[2] Moore joined the Union Army during the civil war and served under George McClellan in Virginia and under Sherman.

The colonel commanded the 69th Ohio Infantry Regiment and led various brigades for much of the war.

He was accompanied to Olympia, Washington, by his brother-in-law, Philemon Beecher Van Trump, who served as Moore's private secretary.

He is interred at Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington.