Henrietta G. Moore

Henrietta G. Moore (1844–1940) was an American Universalist minister and educator, active in the temperance, and suffrage causes. For a number of years, she was engaged in educational work, and then took up the temperance crusade movement. She was one of the most successful of the many lecturers brought out by the temperance reform movement, organizing throughout the U.S. and Canada. In 1891, she was regularly ordained a minister of the Universalist church by the Ohio universalist convention in Columbus, becoming one of the most widely known of the women preachers in the U.S. She was prominently identified with the Prohibition Party.

Early life and education Henrietta Greer Moore was born in Newark, Ohio, September 2, 1844. Her ancestry was of mixed English, Irish and Scotch. Many of her ancestors were prominent persons in the three kingdoms. Reginald Moore, a nephew of Queen Elizabeth, was Secretary of State and Lord Chief Justice of England under her and was by King James raised to the peerage and created Earl of Drogheda. His brother came to the colony of New York under a large land grant from Charles II, and, marrying the sister of Governor Richard Nicolls, established the family in America. Dr. Benjamin Moore, second bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Dr. Moore, president of the Columbia Theological Seminary, and President Moore, of Columbia College, were of the immediate descendants. Her mother's family was of the Clan Murray and the house of McCarter, of Scotland. Upon both sides were revolutionary patriots, and all were conspicuous pioneer Baptists.

When the movement had transformed into the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Moore was made corresponding secretary of the Ohio Union. Soon after, her services as national organizer were called for, and she gave up school work. She was one of the first women to deal with the difficulties of travel in the Territories, enduring long and wearisome journeys on railroad lines, and going the second time west of the Sierra Nevada. During the years 1885–95, she estimated that she had traveled approximately , visiting every State and Territory of the U.S., and nearly all of the provinces of Canada, and had delivered about 3,200 lectures in the interests of temperance and woman suffrage. In 1931, for their role in suffrage and peace advocacy, Carrie Chapman Catt shared the prize money from her Pictorial Review Achievement Award with Moore and nine other women.

Moore was a trustee of the American Temperance University (Harriman, Tennessee , 1893), and of Buchtel College (Akron, Ohio), which was founded by the Ohio Universalist Convention in 1870. the executive board of the Woman's National Universalist Missionary Association, and of the Equal Suffrage Club of Springfield, Oho.

The Library of Congress holds some of Moore's documents.