Life
Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. She was the daughter of mechanical engineer and inventor John Milton Moore and his wife, Mary Warner. Before Moore was born, her father suffered a nervous breakdown and Moore never got to meet her father. She grew up in her grandfather's household until 1894 when John Riddle Warner passed away. In 1905, Moore entered Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and graduated four years later with a B.A. and majored in history, law, and politics. She taught at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, until 1915, when Moore began to publish poetry professionally.
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