{{short description|American abolitionist}} {{Infobox person | name = Lindley Moore | image = Lindley murray moore.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = Lindley Murray Moore | birth_date = {{Birth date|1788|5|31}} | birth_place = Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|1871|8|14|1788|5|31}} | death_place = Rochester, New York, US | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | other_names = | occupation = Educator and farmer | years_active = | known_for = Abolitionist | notable_works = | spouse = Abigail Mott | relatives = {{plain list | * Samuel Moore (father) * Elias Moore (brother) * Enoch Moore (brother) * John Moore (brother) * James Mott (brother-in-law) * Lucretia Mott (sister-in-law) }} | children = {{plain list| * Edward Mott Moore (son) * Ann M. Haines (daughter) }} }} '''Lindley Moore''' (May 31, 1788 – August 14, 1871), was a Canadian-American abolitionist, educator, and farmer. With Frederick Douglass, he coordinated travel plans on the Underground Railroad and they gave speeches at anti-slavery assemblies. Moore worked with Hiram Wilson to identify and make education available for formerly enslaved people who had made it across the United States-Canadian border.
Moore operated private schools in the New York City area and was a superintendent and a teacher at Haverford College. In Rochester, New York, he operated a 170-acre farm in the 1830s and then returned to teaching. His wife, Abigail Mott Moore was the niece of Lucretia Mott.
== Early life == Lindley Murray Moore was born May 31, 1788, in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada into a Quaker family.{{sfn|Moore|2010|p=67}}<ref name="Med Society" />{{efn|His birthday is stated as May 30, 1788 in his obituary.<ref name="DC obit" />}} His parents were Rachel Stone and Samuel Moore. His father, born in New Jersey,<ref name="Med Society">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxOgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA415 |title=Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York |date=1903 |publisher=Medical Society of the State of New York |language=en | page=415}}</ref>{{sfn|Moore|2010|p=65}} named him after his friend Lindley Murray.{{sfn|Moore|2010|p=67}}
Before Lindley's birth, Samuel Moore, his wife, and their children had lived in the United States. During the American Revolutionary War, the family became concerned about being attacked by American soldiers and left their New Jersey home for New York City.<ref name="Moore" /> Lindley's father was considered a loyalist and his property was confiscated by the patriots.{{sfn|Haverford College Alumni Association|1892|p=186}}{{efn|The book ''A History of Haverford College for the First Sixty Years of its Existence'' states that his father's name is Thomas.{{sfn|Haverford College Alumni Association|1892|p=186}} The article for Samuel Moore states that Lindley is his son, which is backed up by an article titled ''Samuel Moore's Notable Sons''{{sfn|Moore|2010|p=65}}}} Samuel's wife and children were taken from their residence and sent to the British line at Amboy (in New Jersey) under a flag of truce.<ref name="Moore">{{Cite book |last=Moore |first=Christopher |url=http://archive.org/details/loyalistsrevolut0000moor |title=The Loyalists : revolution, exile, settlement |date=1984 |publisher=Toronto, Canada : Macmillan of Canada |isbn=978-0-7715-9781-7 |pages=81}}</ref> From there, they moved to Nova Scotia.<ref name="Med Society" />{{sfn|Haverford College Alumni Association|1892|p=186}} After living in Canada, the family visited New Jersey. Lindley Murray Moore stayed in the United States while his father and siblings moved to Upper Canada (Ontario).{{efn|Moore's brothers, Elias, Enoch, and John were politicians.}}
At about the age of 17, Lindley attended a school in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He then worked as a teacher so that he could save money to pay for further education.{{sfn|Haverford College Alumni Association|1892|p=186}}
==Marriage and family== Lindley married Abigail Lydia Mott on August 19, 1813.{{sfn|Haverford College Alumni Association|1892|p=186}}{{efn|Abigail's brother James Mott was married to Lucretia Coffin Mott, the Quaker reformer. Richard Mott, another brother, was a Congressman.{{sfn|Moore|2010|p=67}}}} Their son Edward Mott Moore, who became a physician, was born on July 15, 1814, in Rahway, New Jersey. He died on March 3, 1902, in Rochester, New York.<ref name="Med Society" /> Gilbert Hicks Moore was born in 1816 and died in 1868.<ref name="letters" /> Their daughter Ann Mott Moore was born in 1818.<ref name="letters">{{Cite book |last=Mott |first=Lucretia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5NI5mhy5CR8C&pg=PA58 |title=Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott |date=2002 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-02674-4 |pages=58, 100 |language=en}}</ref>
After living and working in the New York City area, the Moores moved to Rochester, New York in 1830.<ref name="DC obit" /> The following year, they bought a farm and built a two-story Greek Revival style house on it.<ref name="LMM house">{{cite web|url=http://www.historic-structures.com/ny/rochester/moore_house.php |title=Lindley M. Moore House, Rochester New York |publisher=Historic-structures.com |date=2010-05-18 |accessdate=2015-08-14}}</ref> Moore and his wife were members of the Orthodox Farmington Quarterly Meeting by November 1836.<ref name="FF Meeting" />{{efn|The meeting published a pamphlet titled, ''An Address from Farmington Quarterly Meeting of Friends, to its Members on Slavery.''<ref name="FF Meeting">{{cite web |url=http://farmingtonmeetinghouse.org/pdf/timeline/timeline.pdf |title=Timeline : 1816 Farmington Friends Meetinghouse |publisher=Farmingtonmeetinghouse.org |accessdate=2015-08-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225181404/http://farmingtonmeetinghouse.org/pdf/timeline/timeline.pdf |archivedate=2012-02-25 }}</ref>}} In addition to his anti-slavery efforts, Moore was vice-president of the Rochester Temperance Society.<ref name="LMM house" />
== Career == Moore pursued a career as an educator<ref name="DC obit" /> and is also said to have been a preacher.<ref name="Med Society" /> After completing his education, he taught at Nine Partners Boarding School in New York. He and his wife, Abigail Lydia Mott, operated a Quaker school in Rahway, New Jersey for several years.{{sfn|Haverford College Alumni Association|1892|p=186}} In 1815, they operated a school on Pearl Street in New York City that was administered by the Friends Monthly Meeting. In the spring of 1821, they had opened a boarding school for boys in Flushing,{{efn|They are also said to have opened the school in Flushing by 1820.{{sfn|Moore|2010|p=67}}}} and in 1827 the school was moved to Westchester Village, New York.{{sfn|Haverford College Alumni Association|1892|pp=186–187}} Moore purchased a 170-acre farm in what is now Rochester, New York. In 1836, he sold his farm and then lost all of his property.{{sfn|Haverford College Alumni Association|1892|p=187}} He returned to teaching at the Rochester high school.<ref name="DC obit" /> From 1848 to 1850, Moore was a teacher and superintendent of Haverford College.{{sfn|Haverford College Alumni Association|1892|pp=211, 685}}
== Abolitionism == In 1838, Moore founded the Rochester Anti-Slavery Society with Asa Anthony. Moore was the organization's first president.<ref name="LMM house" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ugrr.mmaps.magian.com/media/Pdf/Rochester_New_York_Communities_UGRR_Final_1.pdf |title=Rochester, New York |publisher=Ugrr.mmaps.magian.com |accessdate=2015-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223705/http://ugrr.mmaps.magian.com/media/Pdf/Rochester_New_York_Communities_UGRR_Final_1.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Moore delivered a speech entitled ''Autographs for Freedom'' at the Independence Day celebration of 1852 in Rochester, New York. Like other instances, Moore shared the stage with Frederick Douglass, whose topic was ''What to the slave is the Fourth of July?''<ref name="Douglass" /> Moore wrote the essay "Religious, Moral and Political Duties" in the 1853 collection titled ''Autographs for Freedom''.<ref name="Douglass" /><ref>The Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society. Autographs for Freedom, John P. Jewett and Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1853, p.114, 115.</ref>
==Underground Railroad== Moore helped Madison Washington by concealing him during his flight for freedom, as did Hiram Wilson.<ref name="Douglass" /> Moore raised funds so that Washington could retrieve his wife, but he was captured in the process and was believed to be sold to a slaveholder in the Deep South. Moore learned about Washington through Frederick Douglass.<ref name="Douglass">{{Cite book |last=Douglass |first=Frederick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYblBgAAQBAJ&pg=PR23 |title=The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition |date=2015-01-01 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-18462-4 |language=en | pages=xxiii, 85}}</ref> Moore identified formerly enslaved people (in Upper Canada) who were interested in obtaining education and Rev. Hiram Wilson provided the funding.<ref>Prager J., Exodus and Arrival: Fugitive Roads to Guelph and Beyond, 2015, p.145</ref>
==Later years and death== Abigail died on September 4, 1846, of tuberculosis at her home in Rochester, New York.<ref>Rochester Daily Democrat of Sept 5, 1846.</ref> About 1850, Moore retired. He lived with his son, Edward Mott Moore in Rochester,<ref name="DC obit" /> until his death on August 14, 1871.<ref name="DC obit">{{Cite news |date=1871-08-17 |title=Lindley Moore obituary |page=4 |work=Democrat and Chronicle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122489323/death-of-lindley-murray-moore/ |access-date=2023-04-08}}</ref> At the time of his death, he also had a daughter, Ann M. Haines of Buffalo, New York.<ref name="DC obit" />{{sfn|Haverford College Alumni Association|1892|p=186}}
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==Sources== * {{Cite book |author=Haverford College Alumni Association |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2hOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA185 |title=A History of Haverford College for the First Sixty Years of Its Existence |date=1892 |publisher=Porter & Coates |language=en}} * {{Cite journal |last=Moore |first=Bob |date=2010 |title=Samuel Moore's Notable Sons |url=https://cfha.info/journal75p64.pdf |journal=Canadian Quaker Historic Journal |volume=75}}
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