Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore

American physician, writer, newspaper editor, activist

Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1857

Place of Birth: Chillicothe, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 04-Mar-1942

Profession: writer, physician, activist, newspaper editor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore (November 9, 1857 – March 4, 1942) was an American physician, writer, newspaper editor, and activist. Moore was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, 1860.
Her father was Josiah H.
Rhodes, of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, and her mother, Sarah Crosby Swift was descended from a New England family.
Although a successful student of music in the New England Conservatory of Music, in Boston, in 1881, she entered the medical school of Boston University, and graduated with honor in 1884.
In 1880, she married Charles Fletcher Lummis, and in 1885, removed to Los Angeles, California, where she began the practice of medicine.
She served as dramatic editor of the Los Angeles Times and also musical editor and critic on that journal.
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. She was a writer for Puck, Judge, Life, Women's Cycle, San Francisco Argonaut, and the Californian, as well as contributing many important papers to the various medical journals of the United States.
Having divorced Charles Lummis in 1891, she married secondly Dr.
Ernest Carroll Moore in 1896.
She was a confidante of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and a life-long friend of Mary Austin.
Moore died in 1942 in California.