Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Moore, Advisory Board, 1913-1917
During the Early Days of PMSS
Moore, Elizabeth Moore (1881-1973)

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TAGS: Elizabeth Moore, General Advisory Board, letters from Ethel de Long and Katherine Pettit, State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, fundraising talks, book donations, Riverside Happy Hour Series, monetary donations, Vassar College

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ELIZABETH MOORE Board

Elizabeth Moore was a member of the General Advisory Board during the earliest days of the Pine Mountain Settlement School, beginning her term in 1913 and resigning in 1917.

The first reference to a visit to Pine Mountain by Moore was in a September 1913 letter. She continued visiting occasionally in the summers of later years. Letters to Miss Moore from Ethel de Long and Katherine Pettit reveal her close friendship  with the two co-founders and co-directors.

As of 1913, Moore was living in St. Louis, Missouri. Later correspondence indicated that she was in Saginaw, Michigan, where she worked at the Department of Labor. Next, several 1915 letters were sent to her at the Children’s Bureau in Washington, D.C. and then to Dodge City, Kansas in 1916. By 1917, she was back in St. Louis. As of 1923, letters to Moore were addressed to her workplace at the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Mt. Vernon, Missouri.

Besides serving as a member of the General Advisory Board, she assisted de Long by arranging fundraising talks for de Long in northern cities, such as St. Louis and Chicago. In 1913 she donated two boxes of books for the PMSS library, including the Riverside Happy Hour Series. When traveling through Kansas City in 1913, de Long stopped for a visit with Moore, which she later described in a letter as “a restorative and heart-warmer as well. Only too short!”  

Throughout the ten years of correspondence held in the PMSS Archives, Moore was often thanked for her monetary donations, usually in response to the School’s annual fundraising letters. In 1915 Pettit ended her letter of acknowledgement expressing how much the School needs “you and others like you.”

De Long’s letters to Moore often expressed appreciation for the help that the School received from Moore’s mother. In 1914, de Long provided a clue to the mother’s other activities: “I have been reading of your mother in connection with the Biennial at Chicago in the Christian Science Monitor.” 

During Moore’s absences from the School, de Long missed her, begged her to return, and reminisced about their times together, such as when they planted flowers on the campus. One of de Long’s 1917 letters ends with the closing, “much love – dear pal, Ethel.”

Further information concerning Moore’s educational background has not yet been found. However, one of de Long’s 1915 letters suggests that Moore was possibly an alumna of Vassar College.

IN 1917, the PMSS Board reluctantly accepted Moore’s resignation. De Long earnestly thanked her, writing “what you have done for the school has been a great help.”

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Elizabeth Moore was born on April 9, 1881, in Rockford, Illinois. to Mary Eva (Perry) Moore and Philip North Moore. She had one sibling, a brother named Perry North Moore. She died on July 21, 1973, in Oakland, Missouri, at the age of 92. Miss Moore willed her body to Washington University Medical School.

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To date, little has been found in the PMSS Collections or elsewhere concerning Miss Elizabeth Moore. If additional information is located it will be added to this page. 

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Title	Elizabeth Moore
Alt. Title	Miss Elizabeth Moore ; Miss Moore ;
Identifier	https://pinemountainsettlement.net/?page_id=127914
Creator	Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY.
Alt. Creator	Ann Angel Eberhardt ; Helen Hayes Wykle ;
Subject Keyword	Elizabeth Moore, General Advisory Board, letters from Ethel de Long and Katherine Pettit, State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, fundraising talks, book donations, Riverside Happy Hour Series, monetary donations, Vassar College
Subject LCSH	Moore, Elizabeth, 1881-1973. Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) — History. Harlan County (Ky.) — History. Education — Kentucky — Harlan County. Rural schools — Kentucky — History. Schools — Appalachian Region, Southern.
Date	2026-04-23 aae
Publisher	Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY.
Contributor	n/a
Type	Collections ; text ; image ;
Format	Original and copies of documents and correspondence in file folders in filing cabinet.
Source	Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Board
Language	English
Relation	Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 09: BIOGRAPHY
Coverage Temporal	1913-1923. 1955
Coverage Spatial	Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ;
Rights	Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Donor	n/a
Description	Core documents, correspondence, writings, and administrative papers of Elizabeth Moore ; clippings, photographs, books by or about Elizabeth Moore ;
Acquisition	n/d
Citation	“[Identification of Item],” [Collection Name] [Series Number, if applicable]. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY.
Processed By	Helen Hayes Wykle ; Ann Angel Eberhardt ;
Last Updated
Source	“ELIZABETH MOORE Correspondence from Ethel de Long Zande 1913-1923”” [Series 09: BIOGRAPHY – Board. Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. Internet resource. “Find a Grave Index”, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1X-WWL6 : 26 April 2026 : 19:40:05 UTC 2025), Entry for Mary Eva Perry Moore. Internet resource. Family Search Family Tree. https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/pedigree/landscape/LVF7-J51 ; Internet resource.

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ELIZABETH MOORE Correspondence from Ethel de Long Zande 1913-1923

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